2,116 Quotes About Pride

Do you want it bad enough to get over being hurt?

How quickly self rises to the surface, and the instrument is ready to believe he is something more than an instrument! How sadly easy it is to make of the very service God entrusts us with a pedestal on which to display ourselves. But God will not share His glory with another, and therefore does He "hide" those who may be tempted to take some of it unto themselves. It is only by retiring from public view and getting alone with God that we can learn our own nothingness.

In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.

Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.

There is no greater enemy than pride.

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.

Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God.

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

When you fight with God, your warring against your pride.