Pride Quotes

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Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take pride… — Mike Aquilina
One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was… — Gautama Buddha
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should… — Gautama Buddha
Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is… — B. Alan Wallace
Ah, the first step in humility: Listening. — Michael Beckwith
One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised. — Gautama Buddha
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves. — W. E. B. Du Bois
I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride… — Unknown Author
Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. — Charlemagne
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk. — Austin O'Malley
Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad. — Unknown Author
We are a country that prides itself on power and wealth, yet there are millions of children who go hungry every day. It is our… — Lesley Boone
A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how,… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow. — Gautama Buddha
Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin. — Leonard Ravenhill
Any kind of self-concern, including a self-concern that leads one to shut down and give up (as, for example, a fear to fail) is itself… — Unknown Author
An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness. — David Corbett
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. — Sophocles
The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to… — Sophocles
You're not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it. — Donna Ball

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