Pride Quotes · Page 48

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

— Ezra Taft Benson

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

— William Hazlitt

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

— David Foster Wallace

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Take pride in how far you have come, have faith in how far you can go

— Paula Finn

Stop being so..." "Charming?Attractive?Irresistible? "I'm going with arrogant.

— Rachel Caine

“Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned”

— Jeremy Aldana

When you realize what you truly love, defend it, protect it, stand for it, and be proud of it.

— Ash Sweeney

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

— Helen Fielding

“The best thing you can ever have is peace of mind, it is a basking fire to keep a cold heart in…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

You go to tournaments to win and when you actually lift the prize, you feel tremendous pride and happiness.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego…

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Even as Camille's beauty and precocity took form, when pride alone might have nurtured proprietary feelings, she never seemed quite the child…

— Tom McNeal

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation

— William Hutton

Pride isn't in the way, Life is no fun if gonna be a clown, To be laughed at and never stood for…

— Daniyal Butt

“It is not the self respect and pride that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind to your children…

— Shannon L. Alder

Every good soldier wants to live in an organized environment, secure in the knowledge that he or she will not be threatened…

— William A. Connelly

I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,…

— Jack Kerouac

Self-belief doesn't mean arrogance or blindness to one's own shortcomings. It doesn't mean believing that you are perfect as you are, either.…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“It means I'm trusting and literal and I've been underestimated and misunderstood more than my pride would like me to admit. And…

— Chloe Liese

No matter what we do, sometimes we have to try our best to care less because we can mean nothing to someone…

— Chee Vai Tang

“To guard against the intolerable feeling of shame, we may fold ourselves up and hide in the darkest corner. We may apologize…

— Harriet Lerner, Ph.D

These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color,…

— Nella Larsen

Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.

— William Gurnall

I always took a lot of pride in being a safe wrestle. I never injured anyone.

— Bret Hart

The greatest thing you can be proud of is being able to stand from a fall and becoming a better person.

— Anonymous

I want to be the true champion of the people, and I take a lot of pride in having that role.

— Kofi Kingston

My career means the world to me and it's something I'm very proud of.

— Hrithik Roshan

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

— Charles Caleb Colton

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.

— Thomas Moore

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

— Baruch Spinoza

I'd rather have you reject me rather than have me as an option.

— Anonymous

“To me, saying I'm proud of you was almost as important as I love you.”

— Lisa De Jong

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

— George Eliot

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

— Cynthia Weil

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

I come across as being arrogant and dismissive, even if that is not the case.

— Robert Parish

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'll always be Clevland bownd,East Side Pride for life.

— Mee