Pride Quotes

Quotes about Pride

• It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. --John Ruskin
• A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility. C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)
• A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help. - Dorotheus of Gaza
• A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you. C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)
• A vain man can never be utterly ruthless; he wants to win applause, and therefore he accommodates himself to others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
• Absalom was vain about his hair, therefore was he hanged by his hair. Talmud
• An egotist is a man whose self-importance makes his mind shrink while his head swells.
• And the devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
• Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness, and pride of power, and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear ... Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer 
• Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take pride in our accomplishment, and we find ourselves back at square one. ~ Mike Aquilina   (Love in the Little Things: Tales of Family Life) 
• In the final analysis our great problem with holiness is not that our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our hearts are rebellious. We are selfish, that's our problem. And the fact that we often won't admit our selfishness shows how deep the pride goes. - Floyd McClung
• In the final analysis, our great problem with holiness is not that our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our hearts are rebellious. We are selfish, that's our problem.  And the fact that we often won't admit our selfishness shows how deep the pride goes.     -- Floyd McClung
• March 6 is: Middle Name Pride Day
• Men can heal lust. Angels can heal malice. God alone can cure pride.
• Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them. - St. Augustine of Hippo
• Pain is temporary, pride is forever. -- Anonymous
• Pride is tasteless, colorless and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow. -- August B. Black 
• Pride is the shirt of the soul, put on first and put off last. - George Swinnock
• Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness. - John Climacus
• Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have. - Author Unknown
• Pride keeps us from admitting our powerlessness; meekness opens the door for God's blessings.
• Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. ~ Thomas Merton (No Man is an Island)
• Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher
• Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility. - Larry Burkett
• Some people serve with pride -- because they 'want to' do and be their best; other people serve with disdain because they 'have to' do their job. Which person do you think will end up running the show? -- Jeffrey Gitomer 
• Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening. - Frank Tyger 
• The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it. ~ Lloyd Dobens 
• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ~ Carl Gustav Jung
• Two of the most deadly roadblocks to peace are discouragement and pride. The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it. The antidote for the poison of pride is humility.  ~ Stephen R. Covey (First Things First)
• When I survey the wondrous cross,|On which the Prince of Glory died,|My richest gain I count but loss,|And pour contempt on all my pride. - Isaac Watts
• Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-things over which we never thought He would have to get us alone. - Oswald Chambers
• You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride. ~ Charleszetta Waddle
• Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. --JULES RENARD
• Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. --THOMAS JEFFERSON

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Feel Grateful Instead Of Prideful = Pride can be about wanting admiration from others, and we often take pride in things that we haven’t earned or had any part in. Pride can mature into gratitude, but gratitude can sour into pride. Being grateful is better than being prideful over something. 

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Admit Your Mistakes And Share Credit = As one of the greatest sins for mankind, pride has gotten us into a lot of trouble. It can be a positive thing when we take pride in our accomplishments as long as we share credit with others and do not become arrogant.

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Proverbs 11:2 ESV When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

Proverbs 29:23 ESV One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

Proverbs 16:18 ESV Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 8:13 ESV The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

James 4:6 ESV But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Proverbs 16:5 ESV Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

Romans 12:16 ESV Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.

Proverbs 18:12 ESV Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

1 John 2:16 ESV For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.

Psalm 10:4 ESV In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

Proverbs 13:10 ESV By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

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