Quotes about Pride

I want to have a lot to do with winning a championship or bringing a championship back to the city of Philadelphia.

I want to have a diploma to hang on my wall. Even if I don't use it, I can say I graduated from UF.

When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

I feel as if I'm God's champion, and I have a lot of pride in that.

It's like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it's solid so it's something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

I thought going in that I had to have this very broad, very palatable sensibility that works for everybody, but then the stuff that I'm the most proud of, and probably even got the most success from, was outwardly an expression of queerness or gayness. That's been a nice surprise.

The greatest hindrance to faith is again and again just the pride and anxiety of our human hearts.

Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?