Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity. - Unknown
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. - Fulton J. Sheen
Pride is as loud a beggar as want and a great deal more saucy. - Ben Franklin
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility. - Matthew Henry
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. - Baruch Spinoza
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. - Samuel Johnson
Pride is the mother of arrogance. - Toba Beta
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. - Emily Bronte
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. - Voltaire
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‘Good pride’ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‘Bad pride’ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance. - John C. Maxwell
There is a paradox in pride – it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. - Charles Caleb Colton
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. - C.G. Jung
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for, when we fail, our pride supports us, when we succeed, it betrays us. - Charles Caleb Colton
Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace. - Philip Yancey
When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others. - John C. Maxwell
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