Quotes About Pride

Haughty eyes and a proud heart—the guides of the wicked—are sin.

Mocker is the name of the proud and arrogant man—of him who acts with excessive pride.

for it is better that he says to you, “Come up here!” than that you should be demoted in the presence of the prince. Even what you have seen with your own eyes,

It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out oneís own glory.

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

The slacker is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.

A manís pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

There is a generation—how haughty are their eyes and pretentious are their glances—

a strutting rooster; a he-goat; and a king with his army around him.

If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.

The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.

Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Folly is appointed to great heights, but the rich sit in lowly positions.

So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!

The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will be humbled—

against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan,

against every high tower, against every fortified wall,

So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.

The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

their pendants, bracelets, and veils;

So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.