Best fall & pride Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.”

Men Trying Believe Doe Fall Loses Results Moral Roles Influence Pride Prove Authority Dominion Steam Seizing

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.”

Persons Form Fall Generations Pride Discovery Built Legacy

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-love at once protected me from and subjected me to.... For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.”

Ifs World Believe Heart Long I Can Self Pain Fall Felt Grace Pride Self Love My Heart Absence Unconscious Affected Protected Unbelief God's Presence

Author:Christian Wiman

“Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.”

Fall Behinds Pride Folks

Author:William Hazlitt

“It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad, but we've also been taught that you must always have your pride. Above all.”

Feels Heart Fall Taught Broken Pride Falling In Love Disappointed Heart Broke

Book:How to Be Single

Source: How to Be Single

“It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.”

Should Looks Fall Black Feet Pride Gay Glory Corruption Look Up Feathers Damp Peacock Ruffles

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“Dance allows confidence to grow and inhibitions to fall away, and I pride myself on building people's confidence.”

People Fall Grows Building Pride Inhibitions

Author:Andrew Stone

“The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.”

Art Use Used Purpose Fall Names Justice Greater Pride Guilt Profound Passing Passings Painter Sensuality Vain Proportion Rome Bells Provoking Spain Venice Decoration Leonardo Raphael Milan

Author:John Ruskin

“Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.”

May Fall Pride Destruction Jealousy

Author:Gladys Taber

“Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.”

Ifs Matter Fall Leader Failing Pride Guarantees Exception Demise Prunes

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.”

Able Fall Pride

Author:Wil Wheaton

“There is no shame in falling down but there is pride in getting back up.”

Fall Pride Shame Falling Down Getting Back Up

Author:Lilly Singh

“It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.”

Men Heart Hands Eye Hate Fall Pride Weak Shame Blind Legs Easter Blindness Lame Love Is Blind Weak Man Hearts And Hands

Author:Ben Harper

“Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.”

Fall Cases Pride Conceit Kissinger Henry Kissinger

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.”

Thinking States Fall Courses Humility Pride Despair Contrary Rising Cowardly Vexation Despondency Rising Again

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.”

Men Fall Pride Tests Prosperity Every Man Cups Elevation

Author:Oswald Chambers

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