183 quotes found
“Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.”
“But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what's the sense of ever having it, if man is poorly put together as a physiological...”
“Ones self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.”
“Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage.”
“The privacy of pride.”
“I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn't do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We owe the ancestors that. So many of the souls who died in bondage just want us to...”
“Your ego decides the humanity in you...Higher the ego lesser the humanity....”
“As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.”
“God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream of this idealized community demand that it be fulfilled by God, by others, and by themselves. The...”
“Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If your heart is not submitting to the plan of God, you will actually...”
“[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97”
“It was flawless, correct, and beautiful. 'This is mine,' he said to himself. He felt tears well up in his eyes, tears of joy. Oh, what a blessing it was to be a man, to create, to labor and produce...”
“Pride is causing harm”
“Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder.”
“The words hurt my throat a little probably because I was swallowing my pride, and it didnt taste so great.”
“The war was between the Danes and Wessex. My war was with Odda the Younger, and I knew I was driven by pride. The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride mak...”
“Pride is not your friend. He would have you think he is, that he affords you strength and courage, but in truth he robs you of your health and by slow, diluted degrees steals your might. He is a cr...”
“He had the fault of thinking too well of himself--which who has not who thinks of himself at all, apart from his relation to the holy force of life, within yet beyond him? It was the almost unconsc...”
“The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride, the other the condescending devil of benevolence. She was kind, but she must have credit for it”
“No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand.”
