PRIDE QUOTES
quotations about pride
In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. You will see it perhaps often in this History. For even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my Humility.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Autobiography
There is a paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTË
Wuthering Heights
My pride fell with my fortunes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
As You Like It
Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but Pride mineth deeper;
It is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
JOHN RUSKIN
attributed, Words of Wisdom: John Ruskin
Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
"To Deborah Hatheway", Letters and Personal Writings
The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
If you see any thing in yourself which may make you proud, look a little further, and you will find enough to make you humble.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
A proud man hath no God, for he hath put God down and set himself up.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Pride is a cold, stormy, barren mountain.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
The walls of pride are high and wide
Can't see over to the other side
BOB DYLAN
"Cold Irons Bound", Time Out of Mind
To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Pride goes before a fall, they say,
And yet we often find,
The folks who throw all pride away
Most often fall behind.
EDGAR GUEST
"Pride"
Every cock is proud on his own dunghill.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
C. S. LEWIS
Mere Christianity
The starting-point of all sin is pride and the starting point of human pride is rebellion against God.
APOCRYPHA
Sirach 10:12
Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon