Pride quotes

View Quote Sophocles, "Antigone", lines 1531-1538,Translation by Edward H. Plumptre.

View Quote Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.

View Quote Stephen L. Burns, Taking Heart, in Marion Zimmer Bradley (ed.) Sword and Sorceress (1984), p. 74

View Quote Sydney Smith, p. 484.

View Quote The Lords of creation men we call.

View Quote The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble. Let us keep our end in view, let us press forward to our goal. Let us not indulge in pride, nor give in to our sinful passions. Let us steadily exert ourselves to reach a higher degree of holiness till we shall finally arrive at a perfection of goodness which we seek and pursue as long as we live, but which we shall attain then only, when, freed from all earthly infirmity, we shall be admitted by God into his full communion.

View Quote The same pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely to those above him. It is the very nature of this vice, which is neither based on personal merit nor on virtue, but on riches, posts, influence, and useless knowledge, to render a man as supercilious to those who are below him as to over-value those who are above.

View Quote There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.'

View Quote There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.

View Quote There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one’s intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it.

View Quote They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.

View Quote Thomas Brooks, p. 486.

View Quote Thus unlamented pass the proud away,The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glowFor others' good, or melt at others' woe.

View Quote Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

View Quote Translation: Pride is the constant enemy of love.