Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

We humans find it difficult to resist infection by hubris..

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Washington is a city of arrogance.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.