destructive pride Quotes

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

'Tis pride that pulls the country down.

In the end, I worry that my arrogance shall destroy us all.

You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.