When we fail, our pride supports us, and when we succeed it betrays us.
Charles ColtonTag: success failure pride betrayal support
Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be “purchased” at someone else’s expense.
Andrew LevkoffTag: pride
Envy, is Pride's greatest Fear.
Anthony LiccioneThere is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.
SophoclesTag: character pride consideration thoughtfulness
Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues.
Heather BixlerTag: inspirational-quotes christian pride
Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful...
Heather BixlerTag: grace christian pride inspirational-religious grace-of-god
The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness.
Heather BixlerTag: faith forgiveness understanding christian pride inspirational-religious
God didn't send His only Son to die on the cross so that we can hide behind our guilt, shame, and pride.
Heather BixlerTag: god jesus christian pride cross christian-living inspirational-religious
Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.
Heather BixlerTag: god inspirational-quotes jesus christian pride christian-living walls
He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietzsche.)
A vain person is always vain about something. He overestimates the importance of some quality or exaggerates the degree to which he possesses it, but the quality has some real importance and he does possess it to some degree. The fantasy of overestimation or exaggeration makes the vain person comic, but the fact that he cannot be vain about nothing makes his vanity a venial sin, because it is always open to correction by appeal to objective fact.
A proud person, on the other hand, is not proud of anything, he is proud, he exists proudly. Pride is neither comic nor venial, but the most mortal of all sins because, lacking any basis in concrete particulars, it is both incorrigible and absolute: one cannot be more or less proud, only proud or humble.
Thus, if a painter tries to portray the Seven Deadly Sins, his experience will furnish him readily enough with images symbolic of Gluttony, Lust, Sloth, Anger, Avarice, and Envy, for all these are qualities of a person’s relations to others and the world, but no experience can provide an image of Pride, for the relation it qualifies is the subjective relation of a person to himself. In the seventh frame, therefore, the painter can only place, in lieu of a canvas, a mirror.
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