Pride Quotes

Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.

Lauren Willig

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear

Benjamin Franklin

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

Oscar Wilde

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that t

C.S. Lewis

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity when looking upon it. Our body was not like the bodies of our brothers, for our limbs were straigth and thin and hard and strong. And we thought that we could trust this being who looked upon us from the stream, and that we had nothing to fear with this being.

Ayn Rand

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the wrong is done, a mancan turn his back on folly, misfortune too,if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen,and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornnessbrands you for stupidity - pride is a crime.

Sophocles

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

Christopher Hitchens

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Benjamin Franklin

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.

William Shakespeare

September 11 I will never forget feeling scared and vulnerable I will never forget feeling the deep sad loss of so many lives I will never forget the smell of the smoke that reached across the water and delivered a deep feeling of doom into my gut I will never forget feeling the boosted sense of unity and pride I will never forget seeing the courageous actions of so many men and women I will never forget seeing people of all backgrounds working together in community I will never forget seeing what hate can destroy I will never forget seeing what love can heal

Steve Maraboli

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

Terry Pratchett

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

George Eliot

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

Jean Baptiste Legouve

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

William Shakespeare

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Jane Austen

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

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

Samuel Johnson

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot