Pride Quotes
Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful.
Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.
The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.
When our embarrassment level is exceeded by our desperation level, we are a good candidate for God's grace.
Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.
Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.
Don't force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top....(as in don't try hard when people are before you but be glad... instead of working up your energy for the highest honor)
Maybe Grodzenski was showing me, with his quiet pride, the reason he hummed a little while he worked.
The dark war consciousness and pride have seized upon the weak, with great cynicisms and glib, soulless intellects, that grind away like robotic gears at what they despise and can never understand.
Have some pride, will ya? Begging someone to like you is so pathetic.
After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.
The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.
The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees.
He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz
Have you ever read a wonderful quote that you want to post on your twitter/facebook/blog/whatever but you feel like it may come off as “not Christian enough” or just a little theologically lacking?
Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be “purchased” at someone else’s expense.
Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.
I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pride but bones?
Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?
There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.
Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues.
A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.
She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.
Love can either be your greatest companion or your worst enemy, depending on your pride to accept or deny things.
I remind you that I have no faith. If I sought God, I find myself.
I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.
Cherubs fan our foolish fires, filling hearts with mad desires. They prick our pride and haughtiness with quick, angelic naughtiness.
You need to decide what works for you. But ultimately, hold out for adoration and respect
The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.
Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes.
It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.
If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.He will have nothing to live for.
I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.
Hello, Mary.'It was like hearing a note of divine calm after a dissonant passage of music. My confusion died away.
It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.
Let the whole world tag you wrongly, brand you with evil and create a different you, and let God give you a solemn tag of dignity and see you differently, you have no problem at all!
I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.