Proud Man Quotes
Proud Man Quote of the day
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.
Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.
It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.
In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.
And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.
Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.
A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
