Advantage Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

— Thomas More

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness;…

— Jeremy Collier

When you strive for your own happiness, it inspires others to strive for their happiness. When you envy others happiness, it denies you of…

— Nicholas Zounis

“...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this vice does not measure happiness…

— Thomas More

“Pride thinks its own happiness shines the brighter, by comparing it with the misfortunes of other persons; that by displaying its own wealth they…

— Sir Thomas More

“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 is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which…

— Robert Gordis

Pride is false sense of confidence that makes one feel as better than someone else because of what they have done and accomplished in…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced…

— Samuel Johnson

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

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld