2,116 Quotes About Pride

Your ego decides the humanity in you...Higher the ego lesser the humanity....

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.

Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the light of the world.

...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ...

On the Path of the Wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduction more subtle than Spiritual Pride; it strikes, being solar, at the very heart of the Aspirant; more, it is an inflation and exacerbation of the Ego, so that its victim runs the peril of straying into a Black Lodge, and finding himself at home there.

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.

Love with pride is like chasing the pavement. There'll be a long chasing until it ends.

He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as pride.