Quotes about Pride
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
Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.
— Mark Buchanan
A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.
— Mark Twain
Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.
— Mark Twain
Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.
— Pierre Corneille
Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.
— Rick Warren
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
— Henry Ford