“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest…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.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“There’s a reason narcissists don’t learn from mistakes and that’s because they never get past the first step which is admitting that they made one. It’s always an assistant’s fault, an adviser’s fault, a lawyer’s fault. Ask them to account for a mistake any other way and they’ll say, ‘what mistake?’
Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.”
Jeffrey Kluger, The Narcissist Next Door
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only enduring crime is pride.”
Sophocles, Antigone
“Pride goes before destruction, and arrogance before a fall.”
Proverbs 16:18
Pride ends up keeping you in the bad position ego got you in.
I think this video fits nicely with today’s quotes of the day.