Pride Quotes
You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!
He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.
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.
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.
He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.
PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.
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.
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.
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!
Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a book – I call that viciousness!
. . . I will not be sworn, but love may trans-form me to an oyster, but, I’ll take my oath on it, till hehave made an oyster of me, he shall never make me sucha fool.
Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.
No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth...
She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.
People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.
The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
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.)
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.
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...
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.
We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.
The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.
It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.
The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go downTo the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!
Upon my word, you five your opinion very decidedly for so young a person.
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.
It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
though excessive pride may seek for freedom, it may only see freedom in chains
Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.
