Pride

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Pride is a lofty view of one's self or one's own. Pride often manifests itself as a high opinion of one's nation (national pride), ethnicity (ethnic pride), or appearance and abilities (vanity). Pride is considered a negative attribute by most major world religions, but some philosophies consider it positive. The opposite of pride is humility.

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  • And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass.
    • Leviticus 26:19 (King James Version).
  • His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
    • Job 41:15 (King James Version) (on the Leviathan).
  • Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
    • Proverbs 16:18 (King James Version).
  • Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
  • Pryde will have a fall;
    For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.
  • In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
    All quit their spere, and rush into the skies!
    Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes,
    Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods.
    Aspiring to be Gods if Angels fell,
    Aspiring to be Angels men rebel.
  • 'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul:
    I think the Romans call it Stoicism.
  • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
    With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
  • Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
    • Benjamin Franklin, Letter on the Stamp Act, July 1, 1765, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
  • Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove! I'm being humble", and almost immediately pride—pride at his own humility—will appear.
  • Free at last, they took your life - they could not take your pride.
  • Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.
    • Jonathan Edwards, To Deborah Hatheway, Letters and Personal Writings (Works of Jonathan Edwards Online Vol. 16) , Ed. George S. Claghorn
  • Man’s highest blessedness
    In wisdom chiefly stands;
    And in the things that touch upon the Gods,
    Tis best in word of deed
    To shun unholy pride;
    Great words of boasting bring great punishments;
    And so to gray-haired age
    Comes wisdom at the last.
  • Pride and resentment are not indigenous in the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.
  • Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken...But if you will not hear, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride.

[edit] Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

  • Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
  • There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.
  • It is with men as with wheat; the light heads are erect even in the presence of Omnipotence, but the full heads bow in reverence before Him.
  • We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
  • Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.
  • Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven.
  • Pride is the growth of blindness and darkness; humility, the product of light and knowledge; and whilst pride has its origin in a mistaken or delusive estimate of things, humility is as much the offspring of truth as the parent of virtue.
    • Author unidentified, p. 485.
  • Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.
  • If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart as it loves none but itself, so it is beloved of none but itself. The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.
  • Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
    • Author unidentified, p. 485.
  • Sinners, remember this: It is not so much the sense of your unworthiness as your pride that keeps you from a blessed closing with the Saviour.
  • Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such astonishment as a proud man.
  • By ignorance is pride increased;
    They most assume who know the least.
  • He who thinks his place below him will certainly be below his place.

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