Samuel Richardson Pride Quotations

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

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