Pride Quotes
The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride, the other the condescending devil of benevolence. She was kind, but she must have credit for it
No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand.
Poor Mr. Smith, having been so rudely dragged from his high horse, was never able to mount it again, and completed the lecture in a manner not at all comfortable to himself.
Focus on patience, loyalty, intelligence, greed, dissatisfaction and pride.
Always give everything 110 percent. It's the extra 10 percent that everyone remembers.
Love doesn't discriminate and nor should the law. Not in this country, not in this world, not in this lifetime.
Only wise men can differentiate between what is a matter of pride and what is a principle of dignity.
Dignity and pride are not only two different feelings, but, in some ways, opposites.You can step on your pride to preserve your dignity. You can destroy your dignity because of your pride.
If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner
At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.
It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.
...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.
Proud people have a mirror, the objects in that mirror is rebellion, A wise advice is often seen by them as controlling, Let them be.
Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.
They who shared none of my defeats should take no pride in celebrating my successes.
Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.
If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.
It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they could take pride in, possess, value, as one would a family heirloom.
Jovan: "I'll pass any test you present me. I assure you."Eviona: "I wonder what the best test of pride would be." :)
Amy Carmichael once said, "Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.
The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots.
If outrage were a sign of godliness, then the devil would be the godliest soul in Creation.
Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.
Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women.
His pride and her beauty had been in direct conflict, and his pride had remained the conqueror.
Be careful with your gift. It can lead to your success or your destruction.
Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives
Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.
Human beings are consistent with regard to codes of honor, but endlessly fickle with regard to whom those codes apply. E.N. Wilson
He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride.
Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.
The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.