"Prayer must be humble: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Here St. James tells us that God does not listen to the prayers of the proud, but resists them; while, on the other hand, he is always ready to hear the prayers of the humble."

"In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their spere, and rush into the skies! Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels men rebel."

"I have learned that pride blinds almost as much as ignorance."

"He who is mounted on pride does not know how to sit still."

""What is the Unpardonable Sin?" asked the lime-burner; and then he shrank farther from his companion, trembling lest his question should be answered. "It is a sin that grew within my own breast," replied Ethan Brand, standing erect with a pride that distinguishes all enthusiasts of his stamp. "A sin that grew nowhere else! The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God, and sacrificed everything to its own mighty claims!"

"Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by."

"Man is the proudest of God's creatures, the eagle is the haughtiest amongst the birds, the ox amongst the cattle, and the lion amongst the beasts of the field. Hence it was the image of these four which Ezekiel saw in his vision on the throne of God."

"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter."

"In reality there is, perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history. For even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility."

"Pryde will have a fall; For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after."

"There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.'"

"Let pride go afore, shame will follow after."

"The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble. Let us keep our end in view, let us press forward to our goal. Let us not indulge in pride, nor give in to our sinful passions. Let us steadily exert ourselves to reach a higher degree of holiness till we shall finally arrive at a perfection of goodness which we seek and pursue as long as we live, but which we shall attain then only, when, freed from all earthly infirmity, we shall be admitted by God into his full communion."

"If God has bestowed on us any excellent gift, we imagine it to be our own achievement; and we swell and even burst with pride."

"An lifted his head in pride and brought forth a good day."

"Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken...But if you will not hear, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride."

"They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud."

"Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility."

"Pride, when permitted full sway, is the great undying cankerworm which gnaws the very vitals of a man's worldly possessions, let them be small or great, hundreds or millions."

"Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised."

"Evil does not approach us as pride any more, but on the contrary as slumber, lassitude, concealment of the "I." … It may make us so quickly contented, that any definitive fire will die down. The venomous, breathtaking frigid mist seems able … to harden hearts and fill them with envy, obduracy and resentment, with bloody scorn for the divine image and light, with all the causes of the only true original sin, which is not wanting to be like God."

"As proud as Lucifer."

"'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul: I think the Romans call it Stoicism."

"Humilitas homines sanctis angelis similes facit, et superbia ex angelis demones facit."

"As if true pride Were not also humble!"

"Pride leads us into traps. But patience... Patience brings great rewards."

"His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal."

"Raalt looked as if he were swallowing something that went down hard and tasted bad. He was; it was his pride."

"The same pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely to those above him. It is the very nature of this vice, which is neither based on personal merit nor on virtue, but on riches, posts, influence, and useless knowledge, to render a man as supercilious to those who are below him as to over-value those who are above."

"Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz."

"Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave."

"Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good, or melt at others' woe."

"Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought."

"Free at last, they took your life - they could not take your pride."

"There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one’s intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it."

"Instead of supposing that a work of art must be something that all can behold—a poem, a painting, a book, a great building—consider making your own life a work of art. You have yourself to begin with, and a time of uncertain duration to work on it. You do not have to be what you are, and even though you may be quite content with who you are, it will not be hard for you to think of something much greater that you might become. It need not be something spectacular or even something that will attract notice from others. What it will be is a kind of excellence that you project for yourself, and then attain—something that you can take a look at, with honest self-appraisal, and be proud of."

"O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!"

"Man's highest blessedness In wisdom chiefly stands; And in the things that touch upon the Gods, Tis best in word of deed To shun unholy pride; Great words of boasting bring great punishments; And so to gray-haired age Comes wisdom at the last."

"Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels."

"And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass."

"The Lords of creation men we call."

"Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?"

"Pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees."

"Pride, like hooded hawks, in darkness soars From blindness bold, and towering to the skies."

"Plurumque in summo periculo timor misericordiam non recipit."

"Anon hire herte hath pite of his wo, And with that pite love com in also."

"For pitee renneth soone in gentil herte."

"Pity in woman is a great beautifier."

"Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody Poor. And Mercy no more could be, If all were as happy as we."

"Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison."