Pride

"He is so plaguy proud that the death tokens of it Cry "No recovery.""

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"The Lords of creation men we call."

"There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride."

"Sinners, remember this: It is not so much the sense of your unworthiness as your pride that keeps you from a blessed closing with the Saviour."

"Pride is the master sin of the devil."

"It is with men as with wheat; the light heads are erect even in the presence of Omnipotence, but the full heads bow in reverence before Him."

"Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such astonishment as a proud man."

"Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy."

"By ignorance is pride increased; They most assume who know the least."

"Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven."

"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart as it loves none but itself, so it is beloved of none but itself. The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason."

"He who thinks his place below him will certainly be below his place."

"Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection."

"Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing."

"We rise in glory as we sink in pride."

"Pride is the growth of blindness and darkness; humility, the product of light and knowledge; and whilst pride has its origin in a mistaken or delusive estimate of things, humility is as much the offspring of truth as the parent of virtue."

"Where boasting ends, there dignity begins."