Pride And Conceit Quotes

#1. If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#2. A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, 'I am everyone's servant.' Then the whole universe will bow down to us.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#3. Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Alain-Rene Le Sage

#4. simplicity may be improved, but pride and conceit never. Well,

Walter Scott

#5. ...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.'

'What is that?'

' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.

Agatha Christie

#6. The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. Conceit and false pride on the part of a nation prevent the rise of remorse for its crime.

Albert Einstein

#7. Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.

Watchman Nee

#8. A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#10. What I don't think we should do is panic, and I don't think we should advocate for ideas and plans that will make things worse.

Hillary Clinton

#11. What the hell do you call that?" I asked him quietly. "Firefog?"
"We could," he responded. "Kilvin would probably call it an atmospherically enhanced incendiary action.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the only ways Satan can keep Christians neutralized is to wrap us up in pride. Conceit slips in like drafts of cold air in the winter. We don't see it, but outsiders can sense it.

David Kinnaman

#13. Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Raheel Farooq

#14. One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.

Bill Vaughan

#15. Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

Kellie Elmore

#16. Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit,
His waxen wings did mount above his reach,
And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

Christopher Marlowe

#17. If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#18. Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

Saint John Chrysostom

#19. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

Criss Jami

#20. There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

John C. Maxwell

#21. He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow.

Charles Martin

#22. I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

Christopher Hitchens

#23. Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

Oswald Chambers

#24. Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

Ezra Taft Benson

#25. Parting
One is strong, a child now grown
The other weak, a parent aged
-
The strong once feeble
The weak once mighty
-
Time, the infinity
has marked them ...

Muse

#26. The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

Francis Harold Cook

#27. He was top-heavy with conceit.

J.M. Barrie