Pride Quotes - Page 5

It's interesting how pain can change a person, eh? How it makes a man abandon his pride and forsake himself.

Let us thank God for valour in abstractionFor those who go their own way, will not kissThe arse of law and order nor compoundFor physical comfort at the price of pride

Louis MacNeice

they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of irritation they are able to cause greater personalities than themselves

Don Marquis

You have seen what Eblis the accursed has seen, when he said "I am of fire, while Adam is of clay."Cover up the Eblis-like eye for just a moment; how long will you see just the form? How long, indeed, how long?Alas for that eye that's blind and bruised! Within it the sun seemed like an atomOf an Adam who had no like. He saw nothing but a lump of

Jalaluddin Rumi

I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.

Alexander Zalan

•tThey’re like chickens who get out of the henhouse, and they’re so proud of themselves, and so puffed up from being able to eat all the worms and beetles and caterpillars they want, that they never think about foxes.

Neil Gaiman

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

She was a Seeker now, marked for life.She had thought this brand would be an eblem of pride, but now it meant something entirely different. She was damned.

Arwen Elys Dayton

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

I always apologized for my home to protect myself so people wouldn't think I was a slob, or at least so they would know that I acknowledge I can be a slob and that I'm not okay with it and that really I have much higher standards. . . . When I apologize for my home, I'm declaring to all within earshot that I'm not content. That I'm silently keeping score.

Myquillyn Smith

His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Joseph J. Ellis

Their message is conveyed in that hortatory tone and declamatory voice used by politicians when starting a condition contrary to fact. People who aren't cowed don't spend a lot of time proclaiming they won't be cowed. Leaders who really have strengthened the voice of freedom don't don't need to reassure there electorates that they're committed to doing so.

William Kristol

In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.

Alexandra Robbins

Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.

Maureen Corrigan

One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.

Jonathan V Last

We don't need to pray to prove that we're properly pious or really serious. Instead, we pray because we are completely assured, and because the Father hears our prayers because they come to Him through the lips of His dear Son.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.

Alexandra Robbins

Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

Alexandra Robbins

The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.

John C. Wright

The word bisexual had stood out so bright and clear in my head that all else had ceased to exist. Bisexual. I had a word. I understood; it was me… a nice clear label that said it all. I didn't have to choose. I didn’t have to be not attracted to either guys or girls — a prospect I had found utterly absurd and likely impossible, but had thought was perhaps necessary. Now it wasn’t necessary. Now it was okay to be me. I was not unheard of. Bisexual.

Harrie Farrow

It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.

Graham Greene

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

Tom Clancy

If a person starts neglecting the blessings of God and takes all God has given him as his own, then pride is inevitable

Sunday Adelaja

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

Mark Batterson

He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock.

Flannery O'Connor

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Raheel Farooq

Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

You're seeing yourself as having missed the target already. That's your fear. That's hurting you. But then you got yourself seeing all your shots being bulls eyes. That's your confidence. It's making you cocky. It's making you think you're infallible. See? That's hurting you too. Don't think of yourself as already defeated. Don't think of yourself as already won. Just concentrate on what you're doing. Think about now.

Ben Willoughby

In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we seek to do is assert how well things are going for us, just as friendship has a chance to grow only when we fare to share what we are afraid of and regret. The rest is merely showmanship. The flaws whose exposure we so dread, the indiscretions we know we would be mocked for, the secrets that keep our conversations with our so-called friends superficial and inert—all of these emerge as simply part of the human condition.

Alain de Botton

Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

Terry Pratchett

And this man, who had sailed round Europe and navigated the Great Northern Route, leaned happily over half a ladleful of thin oatmeal kasha, cooked entirely without fat - just oats and water.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

Terry Pratchett

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

Edith Hamilton

if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it.

David Brooks

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:

David Brooks

The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?

Ben Willoughby

When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time.

RSCruz

I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me

Marie Lu

God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.

Mansur al-Hallaj

i found god in myself& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely

Ntozake Shange

Be on your guard against the Pride that repels advice, resents reproof, and refuses to own a fault.

A.L.O.E.

Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

Jane Austen

Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you can go.

Pravinee Hurbungs

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Claude Bernard

Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Pride is a hard thing to let go but is it really worth your all

Joyce Guo

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

Stephen L. Carter

Nothing is over our heads if we hold them high enough.

Johnny Rich

Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time.

Terry Pratchett

When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.

Julia Quinn

I have learned to have pride in what I do.

Harley King

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.

Manasa Rao

A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center.

Joseph Bottum

IF I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against Pride. The more I see of existence, and especially of modern practical and experimental existence, the more I am convinced of the reality of the old religious thesis; that all evil began with some attempt at superiority; some moment when, as we might say, the very skies were cracked across like a mirror, because there was a sneer in Heaven.

G.K. Chesterton

... there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven't lived up to their potential. They feel unworthy. They want to hide and disappear, to fade into the background and nurse their own hurts. We don't associate them with pride, but they are still, at root, suffering from the same disease. They are still yoking happiness to accomplishment; it's just that they are giving themselves a D- rather than an A+. They tend to be just as solipsistic, and in their own way as self-centered, only in a self-pitying and isolating way rather than in an assertive and bragging way.

David Brooks

The marine corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swabjockies, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because those candyasses don't know how to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not, he will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. The artist must be like that marine: he has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier, or swabbie, or desk jockey, because this is war, baby, and war is hell.

Steven Pressfield

Turn your pride into love in order to fill your life with joy.

Debasish Mridha

Self Importance is the worst sin a person can get into

Rajesh Nanoo

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