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A proud man has many crosses.
They who are often at the looking-glass seldom spin.
A proud look makes foul work in a fine face.
He who swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity.
Pride frustrates its own desire; it will not mount the steps
of the throne, because it has not yet the crown on.
Pride would be acknowledged victor before it has won the
battle.
Pride will not act unless it be allowed that it can succeed;
and it will do nothing rather than not do it brilliantly.
The proud are most provoked by pride.
A proud heart in a poor breast
Gives its owner little rest.
A proud man is always a foolish man.
Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment,
and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strong bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Pope
The nobler the blood the less the pride.
Arrogance is a weed that grows mostly on a dunghill.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverse mouth I hate.
Prov 8:13
When pride comes, then comes shame;
But with the humble is wisdom.
Prov 11:2
By pride comes nothing but strife,
But with the well-advised is wisdom.
Prov 13:10
In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride,
But the lips of the wise will preserve them.
Prov 14:3
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom,
And before honor is humility.
Prov 15:33
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud,
But He will establish the boundary of the widow.
Prov 15:25
Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD;
Though they join forces, none will go unpunished.
Prov 16:5
Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly,
Than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Prov 16:19
Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before a fall.
Prov 16:18
Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty,
And before honor is humility.
Prov 18:12
By humility and the fear of the LORD
Are riches and honor and life.
Prov 22:4
A man's pride will bring him low,
But the humble in spirit will retain honor.
Prov 29:23
A haughty look, a proud heart,
And the plowing of the wicked are sin.
Prov 21:4
He who is of a proud heart stirs up strife,
But he who trusts in the LORD will be prospered.
Prov 28:25
The end of a thing is better than its beginning;
The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Eccl 7:8
By pride cometh contention.
Prov 13:10
Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly:
but the proud he knoweth afar off.
Psalms 138:6
The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach
his way.
Psa 25:9
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace.
Psalms 37:11
Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the
lowly.
Prov 3:34
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of
a fool than of him.
Prov 26:12
And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that
shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Mat 23:12
I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
Ruskin
God walks with the humble; he reveals himself to the lowly; he
gives understanding to the little ones; he discloses his
meaning to pure minds, but hides his grace from the curious and
the proud.
Thos. a Kempis
The street is full of humiliations to the proud.
Emerson
Should you ask me, What is the first thing in religion? I
should reply, The first, second, and third thing therein --
nay, all -- is humility.
Augustine
After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.
Franklin
Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.
Confucius
Humility is the first lesson we learn from reflection, and
self-distrust the first proof we give of having obtained a
knowledge of ourselves.
Zimmermann
It is in vain to gather virtues without humility; for the
spirit of God delights to dwell in the hearts of the humble.
Erasmus
To be humble to superiors, is duty; to equals, is courtesy; to
inferiors, is nobleness; and to all, safety; it being a virtue
that, for all its lowliness, commandeth those it stoops to.
Sir T. More
True dignity abides with him only, who, in the silent hour of
inward thought, can still suspect, and still revere himself, in
lowliness of heart.
Wordsworth
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the
proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none
but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor
strength, nor reason can prevail.
Quarles
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully
distinguished from a groveling spirit. There is such a thing
as an honest pride and self-respect. Though we may be
servants of all, we should be servile to none.
E. H. Chapin
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as
humility.
Jonathan Edwards
The richest pearl in the Christian's crown of graces is
humility.
Good
Humility is the eldest born of virtue, and claims the birth-
right at the throne of heaven.
Murphy
By humility I mean not the abjectness of a base mind, but a
prudent care not to overvalue ourselves.
Crew
Humility is to have a right estimate of one's self -- not to
think less of himself than he ought. The higher a man is in
grace, the lower will he be in his own esteem.
Spurgeon
Humility is the truest abstinence in the world. It is
abstinence from self-love and self-conceit, from vaunting our
own praise and exploits, from ambition and avarice, the
strongest propensities of our nature, and consequently is the
noblest self-denial.
Delany
True humility makes way for Christ, and throws the soul at his
feet.
J. Mason
Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know
the least.
Gay
If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that
he keeps his at the same time.
Swift
As thou desirest the love of God and man, beware of pride. It
is a tumor in the mind, that breaks and ruins all thine
actions; a worm in thy treasury, that eats and ruins thine
estate. It loves no man, and is beloved of none; it disparages
another's virtues by detraction, and thine own by vainglory. It
is the friend of the flatterer, the mother of envy, the nurse
of fury, the sin of devils, the devil of mankind. It hates
superiors, scorns inferiors, and owns no equal. In short,
till thou hate it, God hates thee.
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem
and reverence into contempt.
Bolingbroke
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean
advantages.
Johnson
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot
keep up his dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in
drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and
'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So
in pride.
Selden
Pride, as it is compounded of the vanity and ill nature that
dispose men to admire themselves, and contemn other men,
retains its vigor longer than any other vice, and rarely
expires but with life itself. Without the sovereign influence
of God's grace, men very rarely put off all the trappings of
their pride till they who are about them put on their winding-
sheet.
Clarendon
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find
in others, and to overlook in himself.
Johnson
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.
When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more,
that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier
to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow
it.
Franklin
"Pride was not made for man"; a conscious sense of guilt and
folly, and their consequence, destroys the claim, and to
beholders tells, here nothing but the shape of manhood dwells.
Waller
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man,
implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous,
pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all
the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired
while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is
bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to
ourselves.
Colton
Pride is the master sin of the devil.
E. H. Chapin
Pride is the first peer and president of hell.
Defoe
As Plato entertained some friends in a room where there was a
couch richly ornamented, Diogenes came in very dirty, as usual,
and getting upon the couch, and trampling on it, said, "I
trample upon the pride of Plato." Plato mildly answered, "But
with greater pride, Diogenes!"
Erasmus
Pride often defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks
esteem and reverence, into contempt.
Bolingbroke
The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
Cowper
A beggar's rags may cover as much pride as an alderman's gown.
Spurgeon
When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow
very closely.
Louis the Eleventh
The disesteem and contempt of others is inseparable from pride.
It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by
undervaluing our neighbors.
Clarendon
You who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your
calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your pedigree, or
are proud of your wealth.
Thackeray
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
Shakespeare
Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it
is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the
soul.
Tupper
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he
gets as much as he deserves.
H. W. Beecher
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