Pride Quotes

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Thomas Merton

Seek out your superiors and learn from them. Do not hide nor shy away from them for the sake of your pride for true pride is perceived, not in perceived skill, but in improvement.

Megan Webster

Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned

Jeremy Aldana

Love can either be your greatest companion or your worst enemy, depending on your pride to accept or deny things.

Anthony Liccione

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Michel de Montaigne

In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Love with pride is like chasing the pavement. There'll be a long chasing until it ends.

Dee Prathia

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Criss Jami

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

St Vincent De Paul

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth

Gertrude Franklin Atherton

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

Ayn Rand

...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ...

William Faulkner

Juga jangan jadi kriminil dalam percintaan-yang menaklukan wanita dengan gemerincing ringgit,kilau harta dan pangkat.Lelaki belakangan ini adalah juga kriminil,sedang perempuan yang tertaklukan hanya pelacur.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

He was proud of her, he admired her, and at that moment he was conscious of life as something good and he fell in love with her all over again. This consciousness of love took the form of a deep patience inhabiting him, rather than a feeling of cheer or even hope

Michael Stein

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

G.K. Chesterton

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

Ayn Rand

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

Kahlil Gibran

We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?

John L. O'Sullivan

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Criss Jami

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

Garth Nix