Quotes on Pride

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.

But tomorrow I see a change, a chance to build anew, built on Spirit, intent of heart, and ideas based on truth. Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong ideas of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,- A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.

I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.

I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.