Pain will help to break down pride and bring you purpose. There are many obstacles that life takes us through. These quotes about being prideful serve as great testimonies to this type of trait.
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you”
“A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”
“Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.”
“Behind every argument lies someone’s ignorance.”
“God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
“It is more often from ‘pride’ than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.”
“Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.”
“Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.”
“Once you reach the top, take care as the only way left to go is down.”
“One man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than everybody else.”
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others.”
“Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.”
“Pride is as loud a beggar as want and a great deal more saucy.”
“Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.”
“Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.”
“Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.”
“Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.”
“Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.”
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
“The devil wipes his breech with poor folks’ pride.”
“The higher you climb, the heavier you fall.”
“The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.”
“The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.”
“The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s.”
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
“The starting-point of all sin is pride and the starting point of human pride is rebellion against God.”
“There is a paradox in pride — it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.”
“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.”
“To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.”
“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
Knowing how to deal with an individual with an obscene amount of pride can take some patience and understanding.
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