Cease Quote by Ameen Rihani Download Open image “Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.” — Ameen Rihani ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cease Character Pride Virtue
When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride. — Eugenio Maria de Hostos Copy Share Image
“The virtue of Pride can best be described by the term: "moral ambitiousness." It means that one must earn the right to hold oneself… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness,… — John Galt Copy Share Image
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. — John Churton Collins Copy Share Image
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the… — P. M. Forni Copy Share Image
Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
The broader and higher aspects of life are international… There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes? — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the name of Jerusalem. If I forget the extermination of the Jews, may my right hand wither, may my tongue stick to my… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds. — Nicholas Roerich Copy Share Image
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
