2,116 Quotes About Pride

Pride is the mother of arrogance.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

When you feel nervous, recall your pride.

God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.

Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives

If you want to protect your pride, you don't need people to like you!

He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him.