Quotes About Pride

What seems to tend to the church's ruin is often overruled to the ruin of the church's enemies, whose pride and malice are fed by Providence, that they may be ripened for destruction.

He thought himself a mighty prince, but before the Lord (that is, in God's account) he was but a mighty hunter. Note, Great conquerors are but great hunters. Alexander and Caesar would not make such a figure in scripture-history as they do in common history;

The better we can accommodate ourselves to plain things, and the less we indulge ourselves with those artificial delights which have been invented to gratify men's pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to a state of innocency. Nature is content with a little and that which is most natural, grace with less, but lust with nothing. Matthew 1:8-15

Be not desirous to know what people say; if they speak well of thee, it will feed thy pride, if ill, it will stir up thy passion. See that thou approve thyself to God and thine own conscience, and then heed not what men say of thee; it is easier to pass by twenty affronts than to avenge one. When any harm is done to us, examine whether we have not done as bad to others.

Nor is there any surer indication of the badness of a man's spiritual state than the heart's rising in self-conceit, confidence in the flesh, and resistance of the reproofs of the word and strivings of the Spirit.

13  The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Those that look with contempt upon worldly honours shall be recompensed with the honour that cometh from God, which is the true honour.

Power means never having to say you're sorry.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.

When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.

Ce sont donc les gens dotés d'un ego surdimensionné et qui se sentent vulnérables qui sont les plus dangereux

I think I palsied fate; and I long took pride in this gift.

Does the stag in his hour of victory need a diploma from the hind?

Yet they persevered because a lethal cocktail of pride, fatalism, stupidity, and moral weakness prevented them from acknowledging their blunder.

Der moralische Einfluß nimmt da seinen Anfang, wo die Demütigung beginnt, ja er ist nichts anderes, als diese Demütigung selbst, die Brechung und Beugung des Mutes zur Demut herab.

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Beware of thinking all your own that you possess, and of living accordingly. It is a mistake that many people who have credit fall into.

How marvelous is Man! How proud the word rings—Man!

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you.... It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it.

When your self-image is adequate and one that you can be wholesomely proud of, you feel self-confident. You feel free to "be yourself" and to express yourself. You function at your optimum.

Trying to drown me woman?" 'You can't drown a SEAL,' she said. 'How embarrassing would that be?' 'God yes. Shoot me, hang me, let me die of infection from a hangnail, but don't let me die in the water. They'd send me to hell on principle.

Sve sam ve? znao o njoj, odavno: sigurna u sebe i zato neranjiva, uvjerena u svoju snagu, jer je hladna, lojalna a odro?ena, kalu?erica svog osje?anja samostalnosti, ponosna na kostrijet samoj sebi nametnutih ograni?enja. Muškarce ne podsti?u na osvajanje, vec na dužnost, ako dožive ljubav, nastoja?e da je svedu na razumnu mjeru.

Maloprije sam bio siguran da sam joj potreban i da ?e to re?i ne štede?i ponos. Mislio sam da sam nadmo?niji. A sad sam želio da ?ujem bilo šta o sebi, lijepo ili ružno, povoljno ili nepovoljno, ali sam to želio s bijesom, gotovo s mržnjom, osje?aju?i da mi se izmakla, da nisam za nju neophodnost.