Pride Quote by Shion Miura

“never appeared ugly to me, for his face, beaming with boundless kindness and benevolence towards mankind, had the stamp of intellectual beauty.”

— George Saunders

“He no longer cared about anything (as before) but now he also cared about everything in principle; that is to say, it was all…

— Jack Kerouac

“When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and discarded like…

— Barbara Elsborg

“There’s not a person in history who achieved greatness without choking back some pride, without ever smiling at someone they despised, without playing along…

— S. J. Kincaid

“Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life offered far…

— Anonymous

“For he was a sincere man, and in spite of his superficial airs and graces, at root a humble one. And it is always…

— Chesterton Gilbert Chesterton

“Arrogance was unattractive enough when it was attached to true talent or brilliance. Attached to childishness, it was just plain irritating.”

— Erica Spindler

“Pride became us—heroes were never modest.”

— Madeline Miller

“There is no vanity so damaging to a man's character as pride over his good deeds!”

— Lloyd C. Douglas

“No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him.”

— Edmund Burke

“It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply it's bareness, it's dinginess, it's…

— George Orwell

“I maintain my pride in the face of men, but I abandon it before God, who drew me out of nothingness to make me…

— Alexandre Dumas