Oneself Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Oneself Pride Ridiculous Shows
I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large. — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. It's just straight-out ego gratification - how important I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pride that you express to others is ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride. — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
You don't want to be too proud, to get carried away, but if people give you praise, you don't want to throw it back. — Gareth Southgate Copy Share Image
The pride is something ugly I dislike it usually, but sometimes to be pride at some peoples in the right time its fair enough. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — Simone Weil 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
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
![“The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.” quote by Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/251/carl-jung-274_defined_the-self-is-defined-psychologically-as-t_7148.jpg)
