Pride Quotes

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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand. — Fred Allen
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. — Fred Allen
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. — Lord Chesterfield
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. — Emile M. Cioran
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one… — Luc de Clapiers
I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic… — John Henrik Clarke
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one. — Francesca Annis
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride. — Corazon Aquino
Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a… — Watchman Nee
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the… — Alice Miller
If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma… — Dalai Lama
Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical… — Dalai Lama
What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts:… — Sogyal Rinpoche
I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state… — Sulak Sivaraksa
An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below him… — Gary Zukav
The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility. — Kathy Acker
Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest… — Rudolf Arnheim
To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm sorry for. It's… — Ingmar Bergman

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