Pride Quotes

Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be ‘that’ [Liberation].

It is not that men become too intelligent for God, ' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not.

For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.

There is no greater service than that rendered to one’s nation, no greater glory one can seek than that in the name of one’s people.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apartand you sit in the battle field stitching back yourselfone piece at a timelaughing in the faces of all defeats.

Ego speaks from a place of pride.Judgement comes from a place of pain.Courage speaks from a place of humility.Correction comes from a place of love.Where are you operating from?

One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.

Pride leads to down fall o f man.

In this day and age we care more about our pride than our lives.

The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

if you think you know all that somebody knows, you shall least know all that somebody knows. If you think you least know all that somebody knows, you shall really know all that somebody knows.

Neither boost about your own strength nor dignity but the sacred grace of God.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.

The best thing you can ever have is peace of mind, it is a basking fire to keep a cold heart in warmth, and a fortified confidence to be proud of.

[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.

Never mistaken humility for foolishness, nor pride for power.

There is nothing humble about this woman.

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

Friends can become enemies, and enemies can become friends. Ego and pride can turn what is good into bad, and kind words can turn what is bad into something good.

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

It always came down to his freaking pride.

What you call pride, I call courage.

I can only be me not thee, as far as the eyes can see!

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

Pride grants you a happily never after.

Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.

Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I am a survivor NOT a victim.

To feel pure joy, sell your pride and be loving and kind.

Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.

One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.

Sell your materials but save your morals.

You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.

I beg your pardon

It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.

I love that about us how capable we are of feeling how unafraid we are of breaking and tend to our wounds with grace just being a womancalling myselfa womanmakes me utterly wholeand complete

If it's not on the table, don't eat it off the floor.

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.