Promised Pride and Humbleness

When has it been said, "A prideful person should never be trusted."?
Pride is an inwardly directed emotion that carries two common meanings. With a negative connotation, pride refers to an inflated sense of one's personal status or accomplishments, often used synonymously with hubris...
With a positive connotation, pride refers to a satisfied sense of attachment toward one's own or another's choices and actions, or toward a whole group of people, and is a product of praise, independent self-reflection, or a fulfilled feeling of belonging...

I have rarely seen a person who has lived up to the later meaning of the word...
Too many of us are in the first part of the meaning...
It is an easier, softer way to be...

Yet it is a dishonest to really think of pride in the context of one's own self worth...
for that is not the truth, it is a though generated by a false set of beliefs...

We can only rely on what we leave behind on the dusty path of existence to truly judge what we are...
One path one life, do it right the first time or if not, there is always an alternative way to be...
Listen to your manager, for this will truly bring you to your knees...

cici