Pride And Its Family Members Pride is an unruly way of praising yourself. Pride as explained by my online English Dictionary, it is "an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others." Pride is a thing of the heart, it deals with your motifs, you can ordinarily be speaking good of yourself, but innerly, you are doing it to let them know you are better off. It is a habit that delight in pressing others down while you are praising yourself. Pride is a habit, a very quiet and good habit that can easily destroy man. Good in the sense that, it makes you see the good sides of yourself, on the other hand, it is quiet in the sense that, you won't know that, as you focus on your own good sides alone you are blind to your bads and goods of others around you. In short, pride is the father of selfishness. If you ...