Pride Quotes

Self-consciousness isn't just A curse. It is part of THE curse.

Never mistake arrogance for intellect.

Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.

Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.

It takes just a litte attitudinal slip to show a big pride.

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.

The author writes that the central conflict within journalist and seller of the American way Henry Luce was between his curiosity and his certitude.

Frankie's chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids.

In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once.I said I don't want to talk about it.

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

Rowan considered for a moment, and then said, "I have known many kings in my life, Dorian Havilliard. And it was a rare man indeed who asked for help when he needed it, who would put aside pride.

And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

Boys were so proud - you always had to let them think they were good at things.

Fits of anger, vexation, and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset at seeing that it is imperfect.

Pride is the mother of arrogance.

Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me.

So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important—self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

When you feel nervous, recall your pride.

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.

Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.

If you can cope the pride when winning, then you can confront despair when lose.

Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.

Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage.

The privacy of pride.

Your ego decides the humanity in you...Higher the ego lesser the humanity....

Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail.

Love with pride is like chasing the pavement. There'll be a long chasing until it ends.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander

We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?

...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ...

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.

Lunatics! Vain creatures! They don't believe in God, they don't believe in Christ! Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end up by eating one another, that's what I prophesy.

We used to languish when we walked, or sidle down the street like dogs that have just done something wrong. Now Rube walks upright, because he's on the attack.

[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97

- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not proud of it, for in fact I had nothing to do with it.

You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can’t perform.

No man is taller than his head, and there is no big brain that is bigger than the head!

If you feel pride in what you wish to achieve. The desire to achieve more never remains a desire, it becomes a self-commitment to attain greater achievements.

Pride is causing harm

Like many who have no reason for pride, that very lack of reason for it made me the prouder.

The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged in intellectual pursuits but is a regular occurrence in all neurosis.

Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to save face by not owning up to shortcomings.

Pride in many diverse ways is the enemy of love.

For some the proud roar is not about being in charge it is more about "hear me, I miss you" yet those words fade,

The words hurt my throat a little – probably because I was swallowing my pride, and it didn’t taste so great.

It takes just a little attitudinal slip to show a big pride.

The knowledge of God’s Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism.