Pride quotes

View Quote Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

View Quote If God has bestowed on us any excellent gift, we imagine it to be our own achievement; and we swell and even burst with pride.

View Quote If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart as it loves none but itself, so it is beloved of none but itself. The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

View Quote In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

View Quote In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

View Quote In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;All quit their spere, and rush into the skies!Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes,Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods.Aspiring to be Gods if Angels fell,Aspiring to be Angels men rebel.

View Quote In reality there is, perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history. For even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

View Quote Instead of supposing that a work of art must be something that all can behold—a poem, a painting, a book, a great building—consider making your own life a work of art. You have yourself to begin with, and a time of uncertain duration to work on it. You do not have to be what you are, and even though you may be quite content with who you are, it will not be hard for you to think of something much greater that you might become. It need not be something spectacular or even something that will attract notice from others. What it will be is a kind of excellence that you project for yourself, and then attain—something that you can take a look at, with honest self-appraisal, and be proud of.

View Quote Intellectual pride inflicts itself upon everybody. Where it dwells there can be no other opinion in the house.

View Quote Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?

View Quote Isaac Bickerstaffe, The Hypocrite (1768), Act V, scene 1.

View Quote It is with men as with wheat; the light heads are erect even in the presence of Omnipotence, but the full heads bow in reverence before Him.

View Quote It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

View Quote James McCosh, p. 485.

View Quote Jean de La Bruyère, Characters, H. Van Laun, trans. (London: 1885) “Of The Gifts of Fortune,” #57