Pride Quotes

Being big enough to know when you are small, makes you gigantic. Lack of humility is not necessarily the down fall of great relationships, it is the slippery slide ego and pride take you down that block communication, cause mis-communication and dissolution of trust, that kill a bond.--TAMMY WOOSTER 1/15

~ Tammy Wooster

If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus' deep forgiveness through the cross, we will not love others well in the midst of their struggles. If we do not see the beauty and glory of God in our own redemption, we will not be able to offer a compelling redemptive vision for those who are hopeless and who doubt God's love for them.

~ James Macdonald

A partner's different perspective is valuable, but the very fact that it is different means that it will require work, humility, time, and resources to incorporate that perspective. At times, this will require checking one's pride at the door.

~ Ron Garan

It is a sad thing to become so blinded and deafened by pride that you are no longer concerned about whether or not God is pleased with your actions.

~ Thea Harris

It is an illusion to worry about pride without having those things that may predispose someone to fall into the trap of pride...

~ Assegid Habtewold

Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his painful martyrdom certainly looked like self-nomination for sainthood. He's not sure he can keep up this exhausting, aw-shucks façade for much longer.

~ Ron Suskind

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

~ General Iroh

Pride is a human nature and it's good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything is not healthy. Humble is pride exhibited through humility, so be humble and prideful about being humble.

~ Uzoma Nnadi

Humble is pride exhibited through humility.

~ Uzoma Nnadi

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

~ Albert Einstein

I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.

~ Dan Pearce

A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.

~ Elton Trueblood

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.

~ Gustav Niebuhr

It's better to find success through God, than finding it on one's own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it's with gratitude.

~ Anthony Liccione

Self-consciousness isn't just A curse. It is part of THE curse.

~ Mark Batterson

Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is still at the bottom.

~ Anthony Liccione

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Never mistake arrogance for intellect.

~ D.b. Harrop

How quickly self rises to the surface, and the instrument is ready to believe he is something more than an instrument! How sadly easy it is to make of the very service God entrusts us with a pedestal on which to display ourselves. But God will not share His glory with another, and therefore does He hide those who may be tempted to take some of it unto themselves. It is only by retiring from public view and getting alone with God that we can learn our own nothingness.

~ Arthur W. Pink

In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a vice; We comes from God, I from the Devil.

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.

~ Anthony Liccione

Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.

~ Orrin Woodward

It takes just a litte attitudinal slip to show a big pride.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Henry flopped onto his bed, and his steam leaked slowly out. He began telling himself a story in his head. It was about how just and kind and understanding he was. It was about right he had been, how necessary his tone and word choice. It was about a girl who just didn't understand, who was completely ignorant. Then, for some reason, the narrator of the story included an incident in which Henry ha pushed an envelope into a strange place just to see what would happen. It hadn't even been an accident. The incident did not fit with the rest of the story, so Henry tried to ignored it. He couldn't ignore it, so he tried to explain it. Completely different things. The post office was obviously not dangerous. It was yellow. I just wanted to see what the mailman would do. The flashlight was stupid. I didn't shine a flashlight into the post office. She didn't even act sorry. I would have acted sorry. I always act sorry when people get upset. She didn't even care that I probably saved her life. She didn't know. She was unconscious. Oh, shut up.

~ N.d. Wilson

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a label than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

~ Erin Gruwell

In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

~ Matthew Kelly

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

O you youths, Western youths,So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,Pioneers! O pioneers!

~ Walt Whitman

Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her, nor did she dislike it, it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from the dazzling light of his presence.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.

~ David Halberstam

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room in time during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her husband, commander of a space shuttle crew, encouraged her by identifying with her limitation. Even revered astronauts, he revealed, have bodily limits and have to rely on Huggies during extended launch exercises.

~ Gabrielle Giffords

Frankie's chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids.

~ Andre Agassi

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

~ Jane Austen

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

~ Kahlil Gibran

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

~ John Green

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

~ Margaret Cho

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

~ C.s. Lewis