Quotes about Pride
There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.
— Marcus Aurelius
In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.
— Margaret Atwood
Humility is dependence on God as pride is independence of Him. The humble soul is always the thankful soul.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.
— Rick Warren
It's good that somebody has finally cut me down to size, has broken my pride, because I've been far too smug.
— Anne Frank
Father always says I'm conceited, but I'm not, I'm merely vain!
— Anne Frank
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
— Anne Lamott
I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
— Ed Koch
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
— Madeleine Albright
The first reason is their majesty and their associated arrogance (Is 13:11, 19), which fits with the earlier critique of Assyria and of Judah itself (cf. also Is 16:6).
— John Goldingay
The spirit that caused Cain to murder Abel was pride. The spirit that caused Israel to follow other gods was pride. And the spirit that sent Jesus to the cross … that lurked in the heart of every Pharisee … was the spirit of self-righteous pride. That same demonic spirit is destroying America; it deceives us in believing that we know how to run our lives and lead our nation better than God can.
— John Hagee
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.
— Arthur Schopenhauer