Quotes about Pride

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

... but the greatest wisdom is blinded by the glare of vanity.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.