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People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

Percy Jackson," Hermes said, "because you have taken on the curse of Achilles, I must spare you. You are in the hands of the Fates now. But you will never speak to me like that again. You have no idea how much I have sacrificed, how much—" His voice broke, and he shrank back to human size. "My son, my greatest pride . . . my poor May . . ." He sounded so devastated I didn't know what to say. One minute he was ready to vaporize us. Now he looked like he needed a hug.

Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

[Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody's actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son.

Pride dies 20 minutes after death.

Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

Pride is a fool's fortress

Pride is a terrible and dangerous thing. It can take so many forms; it can even assume the appearance of humility. Pride can lead not only to self-exaltation, but also to self-abasement. The key to battling pride is not found in struggling against thinking too highly of ourselves or in striving to think of ourselves as lowly. The key is found in simply not thinking about ourselves at all, but setting our minds on Christ and the needs of others.

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

Pride is the community coming together and showing that love is real.

Pride is the great enemy of unity

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.