Quotes about Pride
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
— Laurence Sterne
Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
— Edmund Burke
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.
— John Owen
O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.
— St. Augustine
It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
— Ayn Rand
There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.
— Charles Spurgeon
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
— DH Lawrence
In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
— Donald Miller
Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.
— Ezra Taft Benson