Pride Quote by Jackie Collins

“But hope is only man's mistrust of the clear foresight of his mind.”

— Paul Valéry

“Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He’d been born to…

— Richard Russo

“they must be able to put their egos aside and assess themselves candidly.”

— Ray Dalio

“Wise men don't feel companionless when they are not in the company of their egos.”

— Delian Zahariev

“i believe expectations are premeditated resentment.”

— Anonymous

“There are two ways to avoid getting disappointed. Expect everything - or expect nothing.”

— Hasse Jerner

“He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize.”

— John Gardner

“People see what they want see and understand what only they can understand. Leave aside the guilt and the blame; no man could think,…

— Mircea Popister

“Having expectations for people (including yourself) without knowing what they are like is a sure way to get in trouble.”

— Ray Dalio

“He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Perhaps one aspect of arrogance lies in not being willing to accept what life sometimes expects one to accept.”

— Winston Graham

“I am not, as you will have observed, a man greatly enamored of his fellow human beings. I do not enter lightly into the…

— Patrick McGrath