Pride Quotes
Pride Quote of the day
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.
By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.
In pride in reas'ning pride our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes Men would be angels angels would be gods.
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.
Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.
Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?
You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!
He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.
A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.
We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)
O you youths, Western youths, So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O pioneers!
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...
He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.
Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
