2,116 Quotes About Pride

I have learned to have pride in what I do.

IF I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against Pride. The more I see of existence, and especially of modern practical and experimental existence, the more I am convinced of the reality of the old religious thesis; that all evil began with some attempt at superiority; some moment when, as we might say, the very skies were cracked across like a mirror, because there was a sneer in Heaven.

It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

He was top-heavy with conceit.

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

If a person starts neglecting the blessings of God and takes all God has given him as his own, then pride is inevitable

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.

MacCaulay clutches his coat tightly and makes towards the elaborate iron gates of the park. He hurries past Apsley House: one time residence of the ‘hero of a hundred fights’ – the Duke of Wellington. His monument to his own great deeds stands yet in front of the drawing room windows. If he had, in modesty, forgotten his own greatness, he might have looked upon it, and been reminded.