Quotes About Pride

You went for bronze over brains.

Die Predigt des Wortes Gottes ist die einzige ernsthafte Bedrohung einer stolz gewordenen Menschheit.

The world hat day appeared perfect. Like a great wrong had been righted. India had shrugged off her shackles and had stood upright, ready to claim her rightful position o the world stage.

God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.

Pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)

There was a time when my ancestors were proud of the title of chamberlain or butler to the King," said the Baron. "There was also a time," replied Morel haughtily, "when my ancestors cut off your ancestors' heads.

Do you imagine that the poisonous spittle of five hundred little men of your sort, hoisted on to each other's shoulders, could even drool down on to the tips of my august toes?

whose inferiority proclaimed her own supremacy so loud...

M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men.

The hefty figure of M. de Guermantes was seated beside her, proud and Olympian. One got the impression that the notion of his vast riches was omnipresent in all his limbs, giving him an extraordinary density, as though they had been smelted in a crucible into a single human ingot to create this man who was worth so much.

But his doom 54: Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought 55: Both of lost happiness and lasting pain 56: Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes 57: That witness'd huge affliction and dismay 58: Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:

Then to submit, boasting I could subdue Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vaine, Under what torments inwardly I groane; While they adore me on the Throne of Hell, With

Vain war with Heaven; and, by success untaught, His proud imaginations thus displayed:—

Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.

Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King:

Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.

with ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud

Depression steals your ability to feel happy and proud even at the moments you should be happiest and proudest.

Self-righteousness can feed upon doctrines—as well as upon works!

If you want to be your own god, you have to settle for living in a tiny universe where there is room for only one person.

Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.

The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of the stony heart, that is, the stubborn, proud, rebellious, unbelieving heart, is, in general, the work of mortification that we treat of.

Wherefore, as the elect of God, let us put on humility in all things; and let me add, that there is no grace whereby at this day we may more glorify God and the gospel, now the world is sinking into ruin under the weight of its own pride.