Pride Destroys Quotes

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

Richard Steele

#2. Pride destroys quicker than ignorance.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

John Ortberg

#4. Pride is the king of vices ... it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul ... other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

Fulton J. Sheen

#5. Pride achieves almost nothing but destroys a lot.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#6. The key quality that anyone has to develop - a regular person as well as a warrior - is humility. If you don't try to develop humility, what you end up developing is pride, and that's destructive; it destroys yourself and it destroys the world around you.

Vladimir Vasiliev

#7. It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful.

Damon Throop

#8. Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.

Kary Mullis

#9. The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.

Timothy Keller

#10. If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

Jerry Garcia

#11. Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

Charlie Kaufman

#12. We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation - I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.

Vera Wang

#13. How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? How sure am I of my own views? Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you're bound to be OK, because you're in the safely moral majority.

Christopher Hitchens

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William J. Clinton