Pride Quotes · Page 71

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

— J. C. Ryle

“Sometimes in his arrogance he has more anxiety for the world than for himself.”

— Franz Kafka

“Pride only serves our ego, selflessness serves our Soul.”

— James Patrick Lane

“Nature has a myriad of weapons to combat human arrogance.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

— Elbert Hubbard

Practice justice, mercy and humility rather than cynicism, arrogance & judgmentalism.

— Anonymous

True friends say good things behind your back in public and bad things to your face in private

— Anique Madison

You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human.

— Bill Watterson

The winners at the Olympics step up, bursting with pride, because everything that they have worked for and all their dedication is…

— Arnold Palmer

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

— Horace

“What I mean by one’s nothingness is when a person recognizes their many faults and their inability to rid themselves of those…

— Rachel McClellan

You can't give up. If you set yourself a target, you've got to keep on until you achieve it. It's a matter…

— Bradley Walsh

O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for…

— William Shakespeare

At Affectiva, we hire top talent - and the entire world is our search space. I take pride in the cultural diversity…

— Rana el Kaliouby

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned…

— Johann Arndt

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its…

— Nicolas Chamfort

After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that…

— Bethany Dillon

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in…

— Steve Jobs

But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Working men, in particular, face a world they did not expect, jobs are hard to find and pay badly meaning they often…

— Katty Kay

“High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility…

— Peter Kreeft

He's trying to do info-tainment. He doesn't really want to talk about trans issues, he wants to sensationalize my life and not…

— Janet Mock

There's a booming, rotating, never sleeping city in the center of my brain and no body can come in and I can't…

— Halsey

[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the…

— Greg Peterson

That's one of the things I loved about Pride: the first round was ten minutes.

— Demetrious Johnson

Respect yourself enough to let him go and love yourself enough to move on

— Anonymous

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

— Gautama Buddha

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

— Paul Haggis

I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.

— Keith Emerson

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

— Rudyard Kipling

“Pride delights in its clever schemes and reduces character to craft.”

— Jo-Ann Triner EdD

I've neglected my own vanity. Not that I regret it, but looking good is part of my job.

— Shefali Shah

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

— John Fowles

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

— Reed Hastings

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

— George Santayana

When we fail, our pride supports us, and when we succeed it betrays us.

— Charles Colton

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

— Yann Martel

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Some set great value on method, while others pride themselves on dispensing with method.

— Chai Lu

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

— Lois Lowry