P Quotes
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“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.”
“Pride is poison.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wrong is to change your opinion when you are proven wrong; whereas pride, even when proven wrong, decides to go on being wrong.”
Source: Healology
“Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...
“Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.”
Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...
“Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.”
“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Etc
“Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.”
“Pride is the archenemy of ministry.”
Source: To Live Is Christ: Joining Paul's Journey of Faith
“Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.”
“Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.”
“Pride is the community coming together and showing that love is real.”
“Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.”
“Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.”
“Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment.”
“Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.”
“Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.”
“Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.”
Source: Day by Day with William Barclay: Selected Readings for Daily Reflection
“Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.”
“Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.”
“Pride is the monopoly of strength.”
“Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.”
“Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.”
“Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.”
“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.
His own happiness is man’s only moral purpose, but only his own virtue can achieve it…Life is the reward of virtue- and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy- a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your won destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but using your mind’s fullest power.
Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seek nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing bu rational actions.
The symbol of all relationships among such men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trade…A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character, your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind.”
“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Pride is the rope God allows us all.”
Source: Peace Like a River
“Pride is the switch that turns off priesthood power. Humility is a switch that turns it on . . . . Some suppose that humility is about beating ourselves up. Humility does not mean convincing ourselves that we are worthless, meaningless, or of little value. Nor does it mean denying or withholding the talents God has given us. We don't discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves. It comes as we go about our work with an attitude of serving God and our fellowman.”
“Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.”
Source: John Climacus (CWS)
“Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'”
“Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.”
“Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.”
Source: Humility: True Greatness
“Pride is yet again in the way of our mind’s ability to accept that we may not be the most intelligent and advanced people in the universe or on Earth since it was formed along with the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.”
Source: Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended
“Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.”
“Pride keeps you from dealing with truth. It distorts your vision. You never change when you think everything is fine. Pride hardens your heart and dims the eyes of your understanding. It keeps you from the change of heart--repentance--that will set you free.”
Source: The Bait Of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense
“Pride leads to down fall o f man.”
“Pride leaves no room for grace.”
Source: Grace Awakening/Hope Again/Simple Faith
“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.”
“Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.”
Source: Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion
“Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.”
“Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.”
“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real”
“Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.”
“Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.”
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
“Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.”
Source: Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq
“Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.”
Source: Table-Talk: being the Discourses of John Selden, Esq.; or his sence of various matters of weight and high consequence relating especially to Religion and State. Edited by R. Milward