Quotes About Pride

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

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Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

This is our Country, there is nobody else who is going to come from outside to defend us. We need to wake up and defend ourselves to make this Country a beautiful and better Country for all of us.

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.

What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.

There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

The one who has developed a habit of taking a lot of respect from others [relish pride], will get cheated.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that 'this should not be so'.

As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive.