Prideful Behavior Quotes

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

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

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

...the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to oneself, or being 'prideful,' is one of the cardinal Amish worries. Having your name or photo in the papers, even talking to the press, is almost a sin.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.