Quotes about Pride
He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
— Samuel Johnson
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.
— Thomas Merton
Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has a great appetite, but no heart.Pride has a great spirit, but no soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A rainbow is not afraid of showing its true colors because it knows it is beautiful inside out.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We have become so used to complaining about the state of our country that we have forgotten what it is to celebrate India, to celebrate what India stands for.
— Vivek Oberoi
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.
— St. Augustine
The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.
— Nigel Benn
Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
— Ellen White
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
— Aldous Huxley
But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
— CS Lewis