Pride Quotes

But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatu...

I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ...

it is madness in al women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown,...

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I...

Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you lo...

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures b...

if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from...

In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust...

... there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven't lived up to their ...

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us...

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the wo...

God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream ...

In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want t...

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the...

they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures ...

We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth...

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better tha...

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fight...

Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression ...

...how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?

I carry my adornments on my soul.I do not dress up like a popinjay;But inwardly, I keep my daintines...

Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these...

He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so har...

He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I...

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUnt...

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he kne...

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. ...

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. ...

They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. Th...

Arrogance is born of insecurity. Pride is different. It is born of dignity, self-worth, and self-res...

There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. ...

Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between hu...

The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) Th...

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agre...

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefore...

We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement. We can choose to humble our...

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

The central feature of pride is enmity—enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen. Enmity mea...

Yet Anthony knew that there were days when they hurt each other purposely—taking almost a delight in...

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowle...

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another beca...

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a bo...

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conqu...

My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly ...

Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to...

If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and ther...

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on ma...

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at ...

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecate...

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues prid...

However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it some...

No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of ...

The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride,...

To be unable to bear disapproval was an unworthy weakness. But in her case it came nowise of the pri...

He had the fault of thinking too well of himself--which who has not who thinks of himself at all, ap...

It had been well if he had been left with only a wounded heart, but in that heart lay wounded pride....

I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...

You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh yo...

Pride ill becomes a beggar, ser.

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...

It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should f...

...my pride in Joachim Mahlke was as sweet as chocolate creams.

Pride is a good horse if thou ridest wisely

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are pro...

...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of h...

Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as...

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hat...

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the ...

No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth...

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had chang...

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer'...

If we was master, then we could help ourselves.

You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pr...

The Elsinore's bow tilted skyward while her stern fell into a foaming valley. Not a man had gained h...

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasu...

When a man's pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult.

We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, "I don't ne...

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated minist...

Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most rel...

If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus' deep forgiveness through the cross, we will...