Pride Quotes

Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she hardly had a good feature in ...

A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling...

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will ...

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...

Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is v...

Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common fa...

But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ...

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be...

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise ...

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary...

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, ther...

Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame c...

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending...

When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they ...

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may b...

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin...

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there...

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending...

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they ...

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may b...

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin...

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there...

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending...

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they ...

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin...

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may b...

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there...

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending...

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they ...

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may b...

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thin...

Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there...

To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love...

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with...

We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity an...

The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and...

Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller...

I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, t...

And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its ...

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make he...

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better ...

The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patie...

Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to...

The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged i...

Pride in many diverse ways is the enemy of love.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dar...

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they coul...

It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.

Now then, Mr. Crab," said the zebra, "here are the people I told you about; and they know more than ...

It's always wrong to hate but it's never wrong to love.

Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on...

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty,...

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtsche...

Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of pe...

I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of ...

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!

Let us thank God for valour in abstractionFor those who go their own way, will not kissThe arse of l...

Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you." "Why?""Because of what you are. Just exactly ...

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

God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment m...

Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could t...

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, wil...

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concer...

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

So she prayed, Lord, give me patience. She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linge...

Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.

Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart ...

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "sh...

The President was in seventh heaven when he heard himself being teased like this; he strutted about ...

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when...

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from ...

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when ...

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands fro...

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it a...

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I ...

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the h...

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into ...

Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remembe...

I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and...

I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so th...

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've got to get babysitters...