Children Quote by John Ruskin

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

— John Ruskin

“Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rival ship: or nobly, which is done in pride. ”

— John Ruskin

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

— Samuel Johnson

“Pride consists in an unduly exalted opinion of one's self. It is, therefore, impatient of a rival, hates a superior, and cannot endure a…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

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 is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

— Anne Rice

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

“Pride is the mother of arrogance.”

— Toba Beta

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

— John Churton Collins

Pride goes before destruction.

— Aesop