In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.—Lytton.
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.—Dr. Johnson.
An avenging God closely follows the haughty.—Seneca.
Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.—Quarles.
The proud man is forsaken of God.—Plato.
Procrastination.—Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.—Rev. Dr. Cheever.
To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.—Tillotson.
By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never."—Cervantes.
By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.—L'Estrange.
Procrastination is the thief of time.—Young.