Pride is synonymous with vanity, which is empty pride in regard to one's person, attainments, or possessions coupled with an excessive desire to be noticed, a lust for attention, lust for approval or praise from others. Pride is the pomposity of vain glory. It is supercilious and haughty contempt of others. Pride supports a whole array of sins, such as jealousy, bitterness, vindictiveness, implacability, revenge motivation, revenge tactics, self-pity, conceit, inordinate ambition and competition, slander, gossip, and maligning. Pride is a mental attitude sin which overflows into the motivation, decision making and activity of the individual.
Pride includes several different concepts.
This is an excessive preoccupation with self and must be distinguished from ego, which is self-consciousness and is perfectly normal. This is self-admiration and an excessive desire to be admired by others. Hence, vanity is easily flattered and patronized. This is exaggerated estimate of one's abilities and attainments. I say through the grace which has been given to me to everyone who is among you, stop thinking of self in terms of pride beyond what you ought to think, but think in terms of sanity for the purpose of being rational without illusion as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from doctrine.