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“Pride is a gateway sin that offers an open doorway for our enemy to drop in and tell us just how great we are, and how we really don't need God.”
Source: The Daniel Dilemma: How to Stand Firm and Love Well in a Culture of Compromise
“Pride is a great energizer for me. --Titus Ray, Chapter 1.”
Source: One Night in Tehran
“Pride is a human nature and it's good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything is not healthy. Humble is pride exhibited through humility, so be humble and prideful about being humble.”
“Pride is a mental factor causing us to feel higher or superior to others. Even our study of dharma can be the occasion for the delusion of pride to arise if we think our understanding is superior to that of everyone else. Pride is harmful because it prevents us from accepting fresh knowledge from a qualified teacher. Just as a pool of water cannot collect on the tip of a mountain, so too a reservoir of understanding cannot be established in a mind falsely elevated by pride.”
“Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.”
“Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.”
“Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.”
“Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.”
Source: The Game: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
“Pride is a terrible and dangerous thing. It can take so many forms; it can even assume the appearance of humility. Pride can lead not only to self-exaltation, but also to self-abasement. The key to battling pride is not found in struggling against thinking too highly of ourselves or in striving to think of ourselves as lowly. The key is found in simply not thinking about ourselves at all, but setting our minds on Christ and the needs of others.”
“Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.”
Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985
“Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.”
“Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself”
Source: Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces [chiefly of Johnson, ed. by T. Davies]. By S. Johnson
“Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.”
“Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.”
“Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.”
Source: Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)
“Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.”
Source: Two Boys Kissing
“Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“Pride is always a way of not seeing oneself properly, whereas humility is"self-knowledge perfected.”
Source: On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.”
“Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.”
“Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author
“Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author
“Pride is associated with failure, not success. We hear a great deal about the inferiority complex, but the superiority complex of pride is seldom spoken of . . .The greatest act of humility . . .was when Jesus Christ stooped to die on the cross of Calvary.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility.”
Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition
“Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.”
“Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.”
Source: Healology
“Pride is both a virtue and a vice.”
“Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.”
“Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.”
“Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.”
“Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.”
“Pride is for knights, I remind myself, not for spies.”
Source: The Wicked King
“Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.”
“Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is: if it works for you, great. When it stops working for you, when you've painted yourself into a corner and the only way out is to say, I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I wish we could compromise somehow, then do it.”
“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”
Source: The Power of One
“Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.”
“Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.”
“Pride is never sinful when it is Justice.”
Source: Echo of lions
“Pride is never so loud as when in chains.”
Source: Ben-Hur (Illustrated): Historical Novel - A Tale of the Christ
“Pride is not an LGBT celebration, it's a human rights celebration - it's a celebration of equality - it's a celebration of inclusion - it's a celebration of acceptance.”
Source: All For Acceptance
“Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.”
“Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.”
“Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.”
Source: Immortelles from Charles Dickens
“Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. Its just straight-out ego gratification - how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.”
“Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.”