2,116 Quotes About Pride

Can it cure the one spiritual disease?” asked Father Brown, with a serious curiosity. “And what is the one spiritual disease?” asked Flambeau, smiling. “Oh, thinking one is quite well,” said his friend.

One More Time: Be proud of yourself for however far you get each time you try

Pride is poison.

A good character is one's pride and Divine fragrance.

Look at that blacksmith, for instance,” went on Father Brown calmly; “a good man, but not a Christian — hard, imperious, unforgiving. Well, his Scotch religion was made up by men who prayed on hills and high crags, and learnt to look down on the world more than to look up at heaven. Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

It was still diving, it was still letting go of mammalian pride and embracing gravity.

The thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin. They torture and thrill all at once.

Geuza kiburi chako kuwa hekima.

Turn your pride into wisdom.