Quotes about Pride

I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.

he was telling the story to the Pharisees: self-righteous, proud, and judgmental people who looked down on others. People like me. He was trying to teach them to look past their pride and into their hearts—to embrace the lost not with judgment or condemnation but with celebration.

The ego hates losing — even to God.

Proud men are the devil's pipes, and flatterers the musicians to blow these pipes.

Nay, [2] after conversion we need bruising, that (1) reeds may know themselves to be reeds, and not oaks; even reeds need bruising, by reason of the remainder of pride in our nature, and to let us see that we live by mercy. And (2) that weaker Christians may not be too much discouraged when they see the stronger shaken and bruised.

Christ came down from heaven, and emptied himself of majesty in tender love to souls; shall we not come down from our high conceits to do any poor soul good? Shall man be proud after God hath been humble?

And there is a proud kind of moderation likewise, when men will take upon them to censure both parties, as if they were wiser than both

Paul said, "You may brag about yourself, but the only approval that counts is the Lord's approval.

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."