Communication Quote by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

“There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be…

— Samuel Johnson

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

— Kenneth Clark

“Many people are miserable because they think that occasional destructive feelings necessarily make them terrible persons. But just as Aristotle maintained, “One swallow does…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

— Gladys Taber

When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become…

— Spencer W. Kimball

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the…

— Erich Fromm

Envy is not to be conquered but by death.

— Horace

“Conquer anger with non-anger; Conquer wickedness with goodness; Conquer stinginess with giving, And a liar with truth.”

— Anonymous

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under…

— Erich Fromm

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

— Elizabeth Carter

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes…

— David Hume