For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. — C. S. Lewis
If your pride leads you to boast,
you will be doubly guilty,
because your intelligence will have shown
that it is incapable of controlling your pride. — Ibn Hazm
Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all. — Jewish Proverbs
In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. — Robert Hunter
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. — John Ruskin
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. — Fulton J. Sheen
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. — Fulton John Sheen
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools. — Alexander Pope
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. — Adam Clarke
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. — Carl Jung
Short Sin Of Pride Quotes
Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant. — Hamza Yusuf
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. — Grace Jones
Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride. — Samuel Richardson
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. — Thomas More
Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. — Vincent de Paul
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. — Georges Bernanos
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. — Aesop
Sin Of Pride Image Quotes
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
Too Much Pride Quotes
If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition. — Julius Caesar
They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects. — Jane Austen
We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger. — Charlie Dent
If you are filled with pride then you'll have no room for wisdom.
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation. — Henry Rollins
The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional. — Kevin Garnett
Don't judge someone just because they sin differently than you
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy — Benjamin Franklin
With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are. — Criss Jami
The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it. — Gustave Flaubert
God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it. — Derwin L. Gray
Excessive Pride Quotes
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride. — Tony Wilson
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom. — Martin Amis
A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having. — Larry Wall
Don't worry about your pride, worry about your principles.
The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self. — Plato
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one. — Francesca Annis
When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility. — Ken Follett
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
You've certainly mellowed out... you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive want will destroy anyone, but those same desires are necessary to understand what it means to be human. Why did you rid yourself of them? — Hiromu Arakawa
We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness. — Paul Haggis
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them. — Laurence Sterne
Pride And Humility Quotes
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. — Thomas Merton
The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride. — Stephen Covey
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right. — Ezra Taft Benson
Love the sinner and hate the sin.
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility. — Jonathan Edwards
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil. — Andrew Murray
It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are. — Wei Wu Wei
Beware of pride because you will be returning to the earth and your body will be eaten up by the worms.
Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced. — Joseph Hall
An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues. — John Climacus
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness. — William Arthur Ward
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. — C. S. Lewis
False Pride Quotes
False humility is more insulting than open pride! — Brandon Mull
The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within. — Kabir
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning. — Anne-Marie Slaughter
Be proud but never be satisfied.
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans. — Jane Addams
There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills. — Douglas Hurd
A false modesty is the meanest species of pride. — Edward Gibbon
Pride makes for the most slippery shoes.
What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power. — Sylvia Thompson
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage. — Mahatma Gandhi
Pride And Vanity Quotes
I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy. — William Habington
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. — Samuel Butler
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. — James Madison
Many a sinner has played himself into heaven on the trombone.
Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition. — Rick Santorum
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. — Joanna Baillie
For years I took pride in being resilient, but that turned me into this guy who can get hit by a brick bat every morning and still look kind of cute.
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. — Jane Austen
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession. — Iris Murdoch
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. — Michael Ayrton
Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them. — Wallace D. Wattles
Vanity And Pride Quotes
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. — Charles Caleb Colton
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair. — Alexandre Dumas-fils
Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide. — Price Pritchett
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. — Jane Austen
It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should. — Jane Austen
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. — Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds. — Frances Wright
Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise. — William Shakespeare
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings. — Jacques Barzun
Selfishness And Pride Quotes
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that. — Mother Teresa
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world. — M. Scott Peck
We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary. — C. J. Mahaney
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. — George A. Smith
Marriage is one of the most humbling, sanctifying journeys you will ever be a part of. It forces us to wrestle with our selfishness and pride. But it also gives us a platform to display love and commitment. — Francis Chan
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity. — Bernard de Mandeville
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking. — Ezra Taft Benson
If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life. — Henry B. Eyring
Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined. — Henry Home, Lord Kames
In the final analysis our greatest problem with holiness is not that our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our hearts are rebellious. We are selfish , that's our problem. And the fact that we often won't admit our selfishness shows how deep the pride goes. — Floyd McClung
Ego And Pride Quotes
Sitting with the poor and less fortunate people removes the ego and pride from your heart. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction. — Marion Woodman
You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God. — Brian Weiss
I will go through a lot of pain to beat someone. If there's pride and ego on the line, if I'm desperate, then I'm willing to go to a place where it hurts a lot more. — Shalane Flanagan
Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated. — Sathya Sai Baba
I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead. — Ray Kroc
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man. — Philip K. Dick
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. — John Ruskin
You're going to make mistakes. The key is to learn from them as fast as possible and make changes as soon as you can. That's not always easy to do because ego and pride get in the way, but you have to put all that aside and look at the big picture. — Tiger Woods
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. — Stuart Wilde
Self Pride Quotes
Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers. — Watchman Nee
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. — Margaret Thatcher
The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. When you do that, you have dignity. You have the pride. You can walk about with character and pride no matter in what place you happen to finish. — Billy Mills
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. — Randa Abdel-Fattah
Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others. — Bill W.
So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me. — Tim Cook
...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability. — George S. Patton
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. — Richard J. Foster
One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face. — Ezra Taft Benson
Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin. — Mark Dever
Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness. — Richard of Chichester
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification. — Anton Szandor LaVey
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. — Billy Graham
Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions at all levels. The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities of the west. — Thomas Sowell
As long as you are proud, you cannot know God. — C. S. Lewis
I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin. Pride was the first stone-this was seen in Lucifer. — Mechthild of Magdeburg
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone. — C. S. Lewis
We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils. — Matthew Henry
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism. — Philip Yancey
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. — Vladimir Nabokov
They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell. — Mike Carey
Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God. — Richard M. Nixon
When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so destructive. This is at the heart of the human predicament, and the Scriptures call this condition sin. — Ravi Zacharias
The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him. — James M. Barrie
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. — Charles Dickens
My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else. — Francis Chan
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. — C. S. Lewis
Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it. — Stephen Charnock
Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind. — C. S. Lewis
I would always rather be happy than dignified. — Charlotte Bronte
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance. — John C. Maxwell
Purge me from every sinful blot;
My idols all be cast aside:
Cleanse me from every evil thought,
From all the filth of self and pride.
The hatred of the carnal mind
Out of my flesh at once remove:
Give me a tender heart, resigned,
And pure, and full of faith and love. — John Wesley
The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one. — Richard Chenevix Trench
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. — Walter Lippmann
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man. — Alain Rene Le Sage
Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin. — John Stott
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. — C. S. Lewis
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man. — Alain-Rene Lesage
The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life. — Oswald Chambers
Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin. — James Joyce
It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride. — John Piper
It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride. — Christopher Hitchens
Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them. — Saint Augustine
Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him. — C. J. Mahaney
Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget it. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy -for in his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision. — Paulo Coelho
We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God. — Ezra Taft Benson
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