Quotes About Pride

Pride keeps you from dealing with truth. It distorts your vision. You never change when you think everything is fine. Pride hardens your heart and dims the eyes of your understanding. It keeps you from the change of heart--repentance--that will set you free.

Some think it is the big things that cause men to stumble. Often it is the minor ones that shake us the most. This shows the futility of self-confidence.

El conocimiento de la Palabra de Dios sin amor es una fuerza destructora, porque nos llena de orgullo y legalismo (1 Corintios 8:1-3), lo cual hace que nos justifiquemos en lugar de arrepentirnos por la falta de perdón.

Standing there in your uniform,' she continued, 'as if it makes you something special. Not even caring what it means really. What it stands for.

Ein Junge, der bereit war, neue Menschen kennenzulernen. Ein Junge, der neue Abenteuer erleben wollte. Und vor allem: ein Junge der stolz darauf war, anders zu sein.

The Bible suggests that Adam was not satisfied with his own being. He wanted to be more than he was. He wanted to be more than human. He failed to accept his essential limitations. He lost his healthy shame. The Bible suggests that the origin of human bondage (original sin) is the desire to be other than who we are . . . to be more than human. In his toxic shame (pride), Adam wanted a false self. The false self led to his destruction.

My degrees are scholarates, not mere doctorates. I've always been very proud of that. Like surgeons over in Britain, taking offense at being called Dr. So-and -so. … But it's irrelevant, it's superfluous, it's silly!

There was more in those eyes than any common triumph. They had been hooded like a bird of prey, and now they flamed with a hawk's pride. A white fanatic heat burned in them, and I realized for the first time the terrible thing I had been up against. This man was more than a spy; in his foul way he had been a patriot.

Tommy sniffed the spring breeze like a supercilious stag.

when you talk of your journey and of what you have heard and seen, you inwardly desire your own glory in all you do and say. All

Aquele que já está no chão não precisa de cair; Aquele que desceu ao mais baixo não precisa de ter orgulho.

Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish represents spiritual dullness and ignorance. Sloth represents spiritual laziness. Presumption represents spiritual pride and arrogance. The consequences of all three conditions are self-inflicted incarceration and lack of progress on the King's Highway. 5.

He who is down, needs fear no fall; He who is low, has no pride. He who is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.

humility comes before honor and a haughty spirit before a fall.

and the name of that Town is Vanity; and at the Town there is a Fair kept, called Vanity Fair: it is kept all the year long; it beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the Town where 'tis kept is lighter than Vanity; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is Vanity. As is the saying of the wise, All that cometh is Vanity. Section

Porque 'no es aprobado el que se halaga a sí mismo, sino aquel a quien el Señor halaga'.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities he does not possess.

Those who lack humility are dogmatic and egotistical. That masks a deep sense of insecurity.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.

Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.

Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning. —DAVID BROOKS

The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.

Im the best thing that ever happened to you and you will end up alone and wishing you had me back.

One who had it all is now without lonely an all alone with only pride as a friend.