Moral-pride Quotes

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

I've changed, and I've learned every single year what to do and what not to do. But I still pride myself on going out and doing the right things. Doing what I'm supposed to be doing on both ends of the floor.

I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance