Quotes About Pride

As we stepped into the large mess hall, a band began to play "The Star Spangled Banner," and Old Glory was unfurled before us. I came undone. I couldn't help it; I began to sob. This was the first American flag we had seen in years. No one who had not experienced the past four years with us could understand what it meant to see that flag and hear that song. I thought my heart would burst within me with pride and with the first-born feeling of being really free!

We can still fall into the trap of self-deceit today. It always begins through pride and arrogance, somehow thinking that our ways are superior to God's ways. In this season when the church celebrates Jesus' mighty work of redemption, let's not miss the joy of complete obedience to God's will and plans for our life.

Unforgiveness, bitterness, pride, even disappointment have the ability to rot the bones of man (see Proverbs 14:30).

Pride and humility, just like darkness and light, have a hard time hanging out together. Actually, without humility, we have very little chance of sustained influence. When

pride comes when we distance ourselves from God's Word, God's presence, and God's will. Isaiah

Taking one's self too seriously is a true display of a persons deep seated inadequacies.

You should take more pride in your appearance," I tell him. "You'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.

It matters not whether you win or lose: what matters is whether I win or lose.

Men are taught to offer help, but too often we don't know how to receive it, not even from the most natural places.

Dear Lord, not one of us likes to hear your displeasure even when we merit a correction. But preserve us from the sins of indifference, smugness, and pride. These attitudes cause the soul to turn away from grace. You are ever prepared to gift us with understanding, desire, and fervor on our spiritual journey. Keep us open and eager to recognize the signs of your presence in our lives. Amen.

I am proud of who you were, David-that hurt person who refused to "die." And I'm more caring, giving, fixing person, the guy with the same sense of humor and that deft, sensitive touch. Good on you, David I love you.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze.

People with the spirit of pride believe that money only comes from hard work and force of will. These are performance-based individuals who believe their wealth (and maybe even their spiritual growth) is 100 percent tied to their effort.

He had seen the ambitious and the proud seek to raise themselves above their kin, and in so doing corrupt themselves, make themselves into things of contempt. The true nobility did not need to prove itself. It simply was, a fact as indisputable as the orbit of planets and the majesty of stars.

Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's.

Say It Loud: "I'm Black and I'm Proud."Some people say we've got a lot of malice,Some say it's a lot of nerve.But I say we won't quit movingUntil we get what we deserve.

Even though I have not mastered it, I now have a better sense of what makes us want others to think well of us, and how we can prevent that desire from ruling in our hearts. False Narrative: My Value Is Determined by Your Assessment

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God. — Frederick Buechner

Do not sit dumb in company; it will be ascribed either to pride, cunning, or stupidity: give your opinion modestly, but freely; hear that of others with candour; and ever endeavour to find out, and to communicate truth.

Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.

Half the people in that stadium [LSU's Tiger Stadium] can't spell LSU. It doesn't matter. They identify with it.

Victoria Westover and Shari Monetta are true patriots

The Free idea Policy from Government always fail and never works, if you give a home to someone for free you will never turn that person into a taxpayer nor a homeowner that takes care of and has pride for their home as they never knew what it took and the sacrifices made to have a mortgage and be a part of the American dream

One fights only to save his family from imminent harm. Fighting for any other reason, least of all pride, is a waste of human lives and resources.