Pride Quotes · Page 93

He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

— Laozi

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

— Elvis Costello

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.

— Max Anders

I take pride in my sports knowledge. I take pride in everything I do. It's part of me.

— Action Bronson

“If you do your best then no matter the result you can always look back on your life with pride”

— Ritu Pandey

Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing

— Loretta Chase

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

— John Irving

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

— George Eliot

“Thus it is with proud silly people, who think themselves above everyone else, and are too proud to ask or take advice.”

— Grimm Brothers

It has nothing to do with money. We don't play for Australia to get paid. We play for the pride of our…

— Patty Mills

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill…

— Jonathan Swift

Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side…

— Desmond Tutu

For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride…

— David Hoffman

“For, of course, power is what Pride really enjoys: there is nothing makes a man feel so superior to others as being…

— C.S. Lewis

Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that…

— John Climacus

Never hold your head high with pride or ego. Remember, even winner of a gold medal gets his medal only when he…

— Anonymous

It really did take Billy Lucas's suicide to wake me up to, kind of, the damage of the success of the LGBT…

— Dan Savage

Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them…

— Samuel Rutherford

“Maybe before you can be fearless, you must be humble. Maybe before you can be courageous, you must surrender. Maybe before you…

— Joe Kita

In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western…

— Nirmala Srivastava

“But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself,…

— Criss Jami

“Naturally, the plague of humanity named confidence (or pride to some), which symptoms often render each person to fiercely believe himself to…

— Bruce Crown

My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to…

— Hank Stuever

Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and…

— Tina Fey

Jesus had a humble heart. If He abides in us, pride will never dominate our lives.

— Billy Graham

“Pride, she thought drearily, was a cold bedfellow.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

Stand in your Light and Shine brightly because that is how you defeat darkness.

— Leslie Esperanza Espaillat

Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride.

— Anonymous

I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

— Harland Williams

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

— Thomas Browne

“It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him;”

— Mark Twain

“human capacity for arrogance was only exceeded by its capacity for ignorance.”

— Ashok K. Banker

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

— Benjamin Franklin

“This isn't vanity; it's positive feedback I receive that I do not disqualify.”

— Robert W Griggs

“Every human being is indeed unhappy as long as he is not free from kashays.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!

— Samuel Francis Smith

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

— Evelyn Ashford

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The hatred of truth is a vice [...] From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.”

— Dean Koontz

“I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident