Quotes About Pride, Boastfulness and Showing Off

“You need to be broken so you are not proud and not full of yourself.

“Acting humble for people’s praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).

“Never does any pride enter the heart of a man except that his intelligence decreases by the same amount.

“To judge one’s intention is to belittle him, and to belittle him is a form of pride, and to have an atoms worth of pride in your heart is enough to forbid you from entering paradise.

Shaykh Omar Suleiman

“The person who often thinks of death will show off less and will also be less jealous.

Abu ad-Darda al-Ansari

“Riyaa is a consequence of living in the orbit of the creation. The deeper and deeper I enter into that orbit, the more I become consumed with gaining human praise, approval and recognition. The more I enter that orbit, the more I fear loss—loss of face, loss of status, loss of praise, loss of approval.

Yasmin Mogahed

“Of the best forms of devotion to Allah is to not make a show of your devotion to Allah.

Yasir Qadhi

“I have not seen someone like Imam Ahmad; we accompanied him for fifty years and he never boasted to us about anything of good he was upon.

Yahya ibn Ma`een

Quotes About Pride, Boastfulness and Showing Off

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