Pride Quotes

On Alex Rodriguez's difficulty performing in clutch situations, Joe Torre writes, In key situations, he can't get himself to concern himself with getting the job done instead of how it looks. There's a certain freefall you go through when you commit yourself without a guarantee that it's always going to be good. There's a trust and commitment thing that has to allow yourself fail, allow yourself to be embarrassed, allow yourself to be vulnerable

~ Tom Verducci

Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a ‘ship’, regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of the ‘sea’. And it takes pride for the ‘small stone’ to sink when dropped into the ‘sea’! Go with humility then!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, 'By jove! I'm being humble!', and almost immediately pride—pride at his own humility—will appear. If he awakes to the danger and tries to smother this new form of pride, make him proud of his attempt—and so on, through as many stages a you please. But don't try this too long, for fear you may awake his sense of humour and proportion, in which case he will merely laugh at you and go to bed.

~ C.s. Lewis

Loving ourselves so much, we are naturally led to enlarge our own merits, to play down our transgressions, to judge others by different standards from those used to judge ourselves. Enlarged merits? They are described by your fellow-writer Trilussa:The little snail of VaingloryWho had crawled up an obeliskLooked at its slimy trail and said:I see I'll leave my mark on History.This is the way we are, dear Twain; even a bit of slime, if it is our own, and because it is our own, makes us boast, gives us a swelled head!

~ Pope John Paul I

When I am paid a compliment, I must compare myself with the little donkey that carried Christ on Palm Sunday. And I say to myself: If that little creature, hearing the applause of the crowd, had become proud and had begun -- jackass that he was -- to bow his thanks left and right like a prima donna, how much hilarity he would have aroused! Don't act the same!

~ Pope John Paul I

For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.

~ Sophocles

Pride cannot be hidden just like humility cannot be faked.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Do not just think about the destination when you start the journey or just mind the direction of your journey to the final destination; and do not be carried away by the serendipity and the joy you shall have as you move, for you may never know the vicissitude of life that will arise; be careful, however, of what it really takes to truly end the journey successfully regardless what you shall have or face as you journey so as to have a great journey and a true life story of noble footprints

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything.

~ Graham Speechley

Narcissistic pleasure seekers routinely avoid developing the humility required to manufacture a life of full measure. Shallow persons such as me hide their insecurities behind a false persona of bravado, boasting of their inconsequential deeds, pyrrhic victories, and adamant refusals to tackle any task that they fear.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, and we are in the presence of someone who is more successful, intelligent and good-looking than we are, we lose all pleasure in what we had. That is because we really had no pleasure in it. We were proud of it.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement. We can choose to humble ourselves by forgiving those who have offended us. We can choose to humble ourselves by rendering selfless service. We can choose to humble ourselves by going on missions and preaching the word that can humble others. We can choose to humble ourselves by getting to the temple more frequently. We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God. We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, submitting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives. Let us choose to be humble. We can do it. I know we can.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Happiness was the responsibility you dreaded, it required the kind of rational discipline you did not value yourself enough to assume - and the anxious staleness of your days is the monument to your evasion of the knowledge that there is no moral substitute for happiness, that there is no more despicable coward than the man who deserted the battle for his joy, fearing to assert his right to existence, lacking the courage and the loyalty to life of a bird or a flower reaching for the sun. Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility - learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness - and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.

~ Ayn Rand

Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

~ Charles Dickens

We need more worship wars, not fewer. What if the war looked like this in your congregation--the young singles petitioning the church to play more of the old classics for the sake of the elderly people, and the elderly people calling on the leadership to contemporize for the sake of the young new believers? This would signal a counting of others more important than ourselves (Phil 2:3), which comes from the spirit of the humiliated, exalted King, Christ (Phil 2:5-11).

~ Russell D. Moore

Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

~ E.m. Forster

Weakness is not the problem, but my delusion of my strengths is.

~ Paul David Tripp

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

~ Stephen L. Carter

Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

~ Paul C. Nagel

Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations.

~ Paul C. Nagel

Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.

~ Joseph Epstein

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

~ Jeffrey Toobin

The more unworthy you feel yourself to be, the more evidence have you that nothing but unspeakable love could have led the Lord Jesus to save such a soul as yours. The more demerit you feel, the clearer is the display of the abounding love of God in having chosen you, and called you, and made you an heir of bliss.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

People who are easily embarrassed – those who blush too often and too soon – usually end up retreating from excellence.

~ Joseph Bottum

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

~ Karl Barth

As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph.

~ Dan Jones

He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.

~ T.j. Stiles

Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.

~ Stella Payton

He was top-heavy with conceit.

~ J.m. Barrie

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.

~ T.j. Stiles

One of the ladies asked about that awful Bobby Kennedy, and Goldwater responded by speaking about the attorney general with touching affection. (Mary) McGrory recalled how Jack Kennedy behaved at a similar stage in his campaign: spouting statistics, attacking carefully chosen enemies and puffing all the right friends, quoting dead Greeks, never cracking a joke lest he remind the voters how young he was.

~ Rick Perlstein

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

~ Mark Batterson

The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. Know yourself. Nothing in excess. and, Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.

~ Anthony Everitt

The toughest thing worth losing is Pride.

~ Unarine Ramaru

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off. He is back where he always was, where every man always is.

~ C.s. Lewis

I do so love hearing people speak passionately on any subject, other than themselves.

~ Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

~ Marcus Aurelius