Quotes about Pride

Life in the kingdom isn't easy, at least not when we want to share the throne.

Refractions of divine goodness are best identified, praised, and enjoyed. If their appearance is episodic and brief, and even if they are contaminated with selfishness or pride, don't let the unattractive features of someone's life blind you to the good.

How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

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.

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

I went to see England against Switzerland at Wembley with my dad and brother, too. That was in 2008, Fabio Capello's first game in charge. Jermaine Jenas scored, and we won 2-1. I remember the national anthem was incredible. I sang it with pride - always do.

I'm always proud to play for Switzerland, and that will always be something really special.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

Hypocrisy is a proud desire to appear better than you are. Be thoroughly humbled and vile in your own eyes, and hypocrisy is done.