Angel Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride ruined the angels.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring…

— Alexander Pope

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd…

— Alexander Pope

Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which…

— Robert Gordis

“Can pride and shame be the consequences of the same feeling?”

— Cesim

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

— Thomas More

Pride is one of the most, if not the most horrible sin that any human being can be guilty of. Pride is the sin…

— Anonymous

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

— Anne Rice

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

— Saint Augustine

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior…

— Lao Tzu

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior…

— Laozi

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us…

— Sophie Swetchine