If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.
I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.
I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.
One may be humble out of pride.
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.
People know I love to shoot action and that I'm not afraid of emotion.
Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don't need it.
Pride will spit in pride's face.
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.