2,116 Quotes About Pride

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

When Ego Goes Up...Destruction Becomes Inevitable!

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors of extraordinary and reforming opinions, and outwardly to affect the profession of them; who, if they are such fools, have, nevertheless, not the power to plant them in their own conscience.

The praise of man brings with it three snares: pride, false security and addiction. Taking the glory unto self and not acknowledging God, relying on what I can do and entrenching a false sense of self worth and getting addicted to more praise. The praise of God is real and everlasting.

In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, but not anymore. The proud could be proud with impunity, because there was nobody to contradict him in his pride and because narcissism was no longer considered a vice. That was what the whole cult of celebrity was about, she thought; and we fêted these people and fed their vanity.

A gentleman goes in search of flattery as keenly as a bee hunts for pollen.

At the end of the day, if pride is your greatest strength, turn it into vanity.

A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.

The Joneses don’t deserve your attention.⁣⁣