Quotes about Pride

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him

When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12).

Chesterton says, in essence, that there is a dislocation of humility in our times. We have become more confident in who we are and less in what we believe. Our pride has moved us from the organ of conviction to the organ of ambition, when it is intended to be the other way around. In short, our confidence should be in our message and not in ourselves.

To the young woman I say, This is the moment in your life when he who is wooing you will be at his kindest. And if you do not see kindness in the man you are dating, beware! For the partnership you are looking for will be nourished and nurtured only on the basis of a love that is not arrogant or prideful, but kind.

Morality can build pride as well as philanthropy; true spirituality will never submit to pride.

God alone knows how to humble us without humiliating us and how to exalt us without flattering us. And how he effects this is the grand truth of the Christian message.

true spirituality will never submit to pride.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

If you can't be corrected, you have a problem with pride. If you rebel against authority, if you want to take all the credit and glory to yourself, if you say "I" too often, then you have a problem with pride. It