Pride Quotes

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...

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...