Quotes about Pride

We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let us come to him on those terms. We will either come as sons or we will stay with the pigs. He won't let us earn anything from him because there will be no boasting in his sight. It will either be that Jesus and his glorious gospel has the preeminence or we will go it on our own.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

I shall not stand to be laughed at. I shall not bear it!

Don't degrade yourself into an abject reptile — don't.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

It sounds beautiful to be called West Ham's top Premier League scorer.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

When I see a car I've designed going down the street and somebody admiring it, that's a nice feeling.

The composer Igor Stravinsky wisely said, "I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received."3