Pride Quotes

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood.

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with pride-but rather in the little kindnesses from day to day.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

My formula for success is just a lot of hard work. It's believing in yourself. It's a pride that I gotta get better at something every time I wake up.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

All complaining comes from pride.

It didn't hurt my pride because I am Onew!

I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

I accept the term extremist with pride.

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).

Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride of a power-mad world.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Pride goes before destruction.

I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's just that I know exactly where he feels most humiliated.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.

A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

I take pride in being very unique in what I do. Nobody else can do what I do and I don't mean to say that egotistically, it's just something in my personality.

One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

There's always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.