Inspirational Quotes on Pride

“No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat.”

“I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.”

“When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.”

“To attempt to pay for salvation with church membership, prayers, or good deeds is an insult to Christ, who paid the full price--and is a rejection of the gift of God's grace.”

“Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.”

“It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.”

“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”

“God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself.”

“Despondency is not a state of humility. On the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride; nothing is worse. Whether we stumble, or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.”

“So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.”

“It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them.”

“Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.”

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

“The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.”

“The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.”

“A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.”

“A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”

“Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.”

“Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow.”

“The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.”