P Quotes
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“Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.”
“Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.”
“Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.”
Source: Humility: The Beauty of Holiness
“Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War
“Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands of miles or risk all for her ego. She has an instinct for greatness --- one that I believe is found in all living creatures.”
“Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor.”
“Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Pride of place in my wardrobe is an Edwardian-style Norfolk Jacket in Derby Tweed. It is silk-lined with leather-clad buttons and has a smell that reminds me of wet moss and fallen leaves.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.”
“Pride of reading is a terrible thing. There are certain literary sets in which the book is an instrument of tyranny. If you have not read it you are made to feel unspeakably abject, for the book you have not read is always the one book in the world that you should have read. It is the sole test of literary insight, good taste and mental worth. To confess that you have not read it is to expose yourself as an illiterate person. It is like admitting that you have never eaten with a fork.”
Source: Imaginary Obligations
“Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning. Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.”
Source: The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year
“Pride of truth is the good it does.”
Source: Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations
“Pride, oh pride—a friend from the past, a bodyguard of the present, and an enemy of the future. Books, oh books—a friend from the past, a soul mate of the present, and a protector of the future.
Slowly, softly, and surely through the pages of the past, I have found a new me. There were so many things to learn and so many things remaining to learn. I delight in the truth of why some books I will read, and other I will not. The truth is: I was not choosing.
In pleasing myself with books, I transform myself. And I’ve found sometimes the most amazing keys to unlocking a different part of me in the strangest of books. I go to libraries and there they are waiting for me. I love them, and they love me.”
“Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”
Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss
“Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.”
Source: On Loving God: Selection from Sermons
“Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.”
“Pride relates more to the opinion of ourselves. Vanity is what we would have others think of us.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Pride ruined the angels,
Their shame them restores;
And the joy that is sweetest
Lurks in stings of remorse.”
Source: Selected Writings
“Pride ruined the angels.”
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
“Pride’s worth a lot, it’s the only thing that can keep you walking when it feels like your feet’s worn down to the nubs. But as my ma would have said, you got to remember pride is a tool. You use it; you don’t let it use you. And you don’t sell your happiness ‘cause your spine’s too stiff to bend.”
Source: Stone Mad
“Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.”
“Pride, she thought drearily, was a cold bedfellow.”
Source: The King Stag
“Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.”
“Pride sows the seeds of rebellion.”
“Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate glory and to pursue self-glorification, contending for supremacy with Him. The proud person seeks to glorify himself and not God, thereby attempting in effect to deprive God of something only He is worthy to receive”
Source: Humility: True Greatness
“Pride takes many forms—whether it’s boasting about our talents, feeling superior because of our achievements, showing off our wealth, focusing on appearances, seeking status, or thinking we’re spiritually better than others. God hates all kinds of pride. To please Him, we must let go of our pride. Always remember, God resists the proud But gives grace to the humble.
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“Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.”
Source: Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books
“Pride talks to impress; wisdom listens to understand.”
Source: The Calm Within the Storm: Leading Beyond Ego
“Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.”
Source: Moth Smoke
“Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.”
Source: Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth
“Pride that you express to other people is probably ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride. Pride of self is understanding that life is glorious, and that it 's an honor to be here.”
“Pride, then, seems to be a sort of crown of the virtues; for it makes them greater, and it is not found without them. Therefore it is hard to be truly proud; for it is impossible without nobility and goodness of character.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.”
Source: Utopia
“Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.”
“Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and we could tingle for days ... First, he found the pride in each of us, then he taught us how good it could feel. What he was ultimately after was for every one of us to learn to light our own fires and glow our brightest.”
Source: Giant Steps
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“Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.”
Source: Long Drums and Cannons
“Pride was the belt you could use to hold up your pants even after your pants were gone”
“Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.”
“Pride went before, ambition follows him.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Pride, What a mischief. Shame, What a waste. Arrogance, What audacity. Humility, Where's the taste.”
“Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.”
“Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.”
Source: Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace
“Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.”
“Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.”
“Pride writes cheques that humility has to cash.”
“Pride yourself on the fact that if gallantry, generosity, and fidelity disappeared from the world, they could be found in you.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
“Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.”
Source: Salt and Saffron