All posts in Pride

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. – Fulton J. Sheen

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it’s not fattening. – Frank Tyger

Swallow your pride occasionally, it’s not fattening.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. – Charles…

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…

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.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. – C.S. Lewis

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you…

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. – Benjamin Franklin

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied…

But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.