Pride quotes

View Quote Prayer must be humble: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Here St. James tells us that God does not listen to the prayers of the proud, but resists them; while, on the other hand, he is always ready to hear the prayers of the humble.

View Quote Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault)Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.

View Quote Pride and resentment are not indigenous in the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.

View Quote Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.

View Quote Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

View Quote Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

View Quote Pride hath no other glassTo show itself but pride, for supple kneesFeed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

View Quote Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,I see the lords of humankind pass by.

View Quote Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

View Quote Pride is the growth of blindness and darkness; humility, the product of light and knowledge; and whilst pride has its origin in a mistaken or delusive estimate of things, humility is as much the offspring of truth as the parent of virtue.

View Quote Pride is the master sin of the devil.

View Quote Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven.

View Quote Pride, like hooded hawks, in darkness soarsFrom blindness bold, and towering to the skies.

View Quote Pride, when permitted full sway, is the great undying cankerworm which gnaws the very vitals of a man's worldly possessions, let them be small or great, hundreds or millions.

View Quote Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence,And fills up all the mighty void of sense.