Quotes about Pride
Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.
— Lady Gaga
Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
— Bill Wilson
A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
— Kent Hughes
Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.
— Thomas Adams
The self-righteous never apologize.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
— Charles Spurgeon
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
— Nikki Giovanni
If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.
— Louis Bourdaloue
Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.
— Martin Luther
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
— John Donne
Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
— Francis de Sales