Pride Quotes

One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

It is our own arrogance and pride that cause pain. The more that we think that we can do anything, the less we realize our complete dependence on God, and the worse the pain becomes.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Don't let proud get to your head, always humble yourself.

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain.

The greatest misery does not stop Me from uniting Myself to a soul, but where there is pride, I am not there.

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

Never does any pride enter the heart of a man ex­cept that his in­tel­li­gence de­creases by the same amount.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.

My word is my pride, the wisdom is weak, and that's word from the wise.

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

I dedicate my love and whole heart this Memorial Day to my Dad, a soldier, who like many others, suffers in silence with pride and honor.

Can't nobody take my pride. Can't nobody hold me down.

I used to focus more on scoring. Now I take a lot of pride and pleasure in helping someone else do well.

God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.

Do you know what is really embarrassing and makes your pride hurt? Lacking some skill? Not being able to earn some money? It's not that. Fearing something once, and being scared of it forever.

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations.

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

God made us and God is able to empower us to do whatever he calls us to do. Denying that we can accomplish God's work is not humility; it is the worst kind of pride.

Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take not only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross.

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.