Quotes About Pride

We should never become achievement satisfied, because there is always more gospel work to do. But we must always remind one another that achievement is a spiritual minefield. Achievement has the power to change us—to change who we think we are and what we think we are capable of doing. Sadly, achievement can turn humble servant leaders into proud, controlling, and unapproachable mini-kings. But there is powerful, right-here, right-now grace for this struggle.

When we replace vertical awe of God with awe of self, bad things happen in the horizontal community.

We all tend to want to think we are more righteous than we actually are.

in the heart of a sinner, awe of God is very quickly replaced by awe of self.

Why you? - (...) I'm the best. - Modest of you. - I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

I'm not conceited. I'm just honest about being so much better than other people.

The English are a great race,' he told me once. 'But they have a deep down belief that they are the best of all peoples.

False humility is better than no humility at all.

In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how he could have been so many kinds of a fool for so long without realising it.

Okay, so I'm not Yale Law Review, but I'm proud of my diploma. University of Miami. Night division. Top half of the bottom third of my class.

SOLOMON'S LAWS 4. If you're going to all the trouble to make a fool of yourself, be sure to have plenty of witnesses.

My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.

The mind-closing danger of biased beliefs occurs when we don't know we hold them. Sometimes we have to swallow our pride and engage in clear-eyed analysis.

Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, It's okay, I'm from New Jersey. I love New Jersey, because it's not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a handy legal defense, as in, "Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.

being gay is a fantastic idea.

My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.

But sometimes the strong mistake their strength

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

The gentry protect their names like hymens, They suck their names like thumbs, But they sign their names and something happens. While Zimmer, I can write, Zimmer, All day, and nothing happens.

I wanted my parents to be proud of me and to take me seriously. I also wanted to be well past caring, complete and needing only my own validation.

you can share his pleasure in that achievement with a warm smile.

The Captain stepped into the stirrup and was proud of the fact that at age seventy-one he could step up from the ground onto a sixteen-hand horse. With some pain but no flinching he swung into the saddle.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

In Russia kettlebells are a matter of national pride and a symbol of strength. In the olden days, any strongman or weightlifter was referred to as a girevik, or "kettlebell man." Steeled by their kettlebells, generation after generation of Russian boys has turned to men.