Pride Quotes

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor.

The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

To be part of the creation, I must act humbly. I'll take that over a goddess any day!

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it’s painful, and it certainly doesn’t feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride — thwarted pride.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts.

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.

When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.

We have to have pride in not just one people but all people.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

I'd rather save a home run than hit one. I've always been like that. Defense is what I pride myself on.

Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it.

To me, my feelings and pride are important. Although I like you it's not enough to be used like that.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

If there is a better solution... find it.

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.