Pride Quotes

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Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's… — Herman Melville
Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words… — C. J. Mahaney
Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride… — Pablo Neruda
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. — Mary Antin
A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined… — Jim Butcher
Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees.… — Alistair Begg
Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty… — Unknown Author
A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be… — Francis Chan
All complaining comes from pride. — Joyce Meyer
Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come. — William Barclay
Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified. — Philip Doddridge
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in… — Alexander Pope
Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance… — Matthew Henry
No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought… — Charles Stanley
Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for… — J C Ryle
Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including… — Watchman Nee
Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges. — Rick Warren

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