Pride Quotes - Page 6

Be broken and pride will have no vessel.

Human beings are consistent with regard to codes of honor, but endlessly fickle with regard to whom those codes apply. E.N. Wilson

Andrew Zolli

However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it sometimes. Those who do it always would as soon think of being conceited of eating their dinner as of doing their duty. What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

George MacDonald

He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride.

Ursula K Le Guin

Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.

Kevin DeYoung

The kind of submission or resignation that he showed, was that of a man who was tired out. I sometimes derived an impression, from his manner or from a whispered word or two which escaped him, that he pondered over the question whether he might have a better man under better circumstances. But he never justified himself by a hint tending that way, or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.It happened on two or three occasions in my presence, that his desperate reputation was alluded to by one or other of the people in attendance on him. A smile crossed his face then, and he turned his eyes on me with a trustful look, as if he were confident that I had seen some small redeeming touch in him, even so long ago as when I was a little child. As to all the rest, he was humble and contrite, and I never knew him complain.

Charles Dickens

The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.

Barbara W. Tuchman

When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul".

Paul C. Nagel

Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.

Paul C. Nagel

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

Stephen L. Carter

John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel nothing but sorrow and shame at your presence.

Paul C. Nagel

Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.

Eugene H. Peterson

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

Stephen L. Carter

The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.

Eugene H. Peterson

There is no more prideful creature than a man born poor.

Lynn Cullen

One of the thousand objections to the sin of pride lies precisely in this, that self-consciousness of necessity destroys sel-revelation. A man who thinks a great deal about himself will try to be many-sided, attempt a theatrical excellence at all points, will try to be an encyclopedia of culture, and his own real personality will be lost in that false universalism.

G.K. Chesterton

Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.

H.W. Brands

If two people could make each other smile and laugh and forget all the pain and darkness in the world for a moment, why should we feel ashamed of it?

Leah Raeder

when you get to the peak, remember the valley exists

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.

Nicholas Kristof

Jovan: "I'll pass any test you present me. I assure you."Eviona: "I wonder what the best test of pride would be." :)

Eve S. Nicholson

So she prayed, Lord, give me patience. She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it....it cost her tears to think that her situation might actually be that desolate, so she prayed again for patience, for tact, for understanding--for every virtue that might keep her safe from conflicts that would be sure to leave her wounded, every virtue that might at least help her to preserve an appearance of dignity, for heaven's sake.

Marilynne Robinson

Amy Carmichael once said, "Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.

Alexander Strauch

As we neared the watering hole, I saw lions sprawled at the base of the acacia tree, relaxing in the shade. Many, many lions. If a group of lions is normally called a pride, then this was, at the very least, an overconfidence. Possibly an arrogance.

Dixie Lyle

The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If outrage were a sign of godliness, then the devil would be the godliest soul in Creation.

Russell D. Moore

Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.

Robin Hobb

Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.

Beth Moore

Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind. Our degree of pride determines how we treat our God and our brothers and sisters. Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

Ezra Taft Benson

I wished to test your love for me, and it did not bear the test. You used to tell me that you drew the very breath of life but for me and love of me." "And to prove that love, you demanded that I should forfeit mine honor," he said..."that I should accept without murmur of question, as a dumb and submissive slave, every action of my mistress. My hear overflowing with love and passion, I asked for no explanation-I waited for one, not doubting, only hoping.

Emmuska Orczy

Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women.

Ursula K Le Guin

The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) They pit their perceptions of truth against God’s great knowledge, their abilities versus God’s priesthood power, and their accomplishments against His mighty works.

Ezra Taft Benson

You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.

J.R.R. Tolkien

His pride and her beauty had been in direct conflict, and his pride had remained the conqueror.

Emmuska Orczy

If we was master, then we could help ourselves.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Be careful with your gift. It can lead to your success or your destruction.

Eric Christopher Jackson

For when a woman resists an unwelcome passion, she is obeying to the full the law of her sex; the initial gesture of refusal is, so to speak, a primordial instinct in every female, and even if she rejects the most ardent passion she cannot be called inhuman. But how disastrous it is when fate upsets the balance, when a woman so far overcomes her natural modesty as to disclose her passion to a man, when, without the certainty of its being reciprocated, she offers her love, and he, the wooed, remains cold and on the defensive! An insoluble tangle this, always; for not to return a woman's love is to shatter her pride, to violate her modesty. The man who rejects a woman's advances is bound to wound her in her noblest feelings. In vain, then, all the tenderness with which he extricates himself, useless all his polite, evasive phrases, insulting all his offers of mere friendship, once she has revealed her weakness! His resistance inevitably becomes cruelty, and in rejecting a woman's love he takes a load of guild upon his conscience, guiltless though he may be. Abominable fetters that can never be cast off!

Stefan Zweig

Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives

Iain S. Thomas

I pretend to reach for them, but before he can guess my intentions, I catch one of his wings instead. He flutters, trying to break loose, his one free wing batting my hand.I draw out the decanter and stuff him into it, careful to fold his wings. I don’t want to hurt him. I just want to better him.Once he’s settled inside, I shove a paper towel into the bottle’s neck. No need to worry that he’ll smother. After all, he spent that night in a bug trap last year and sur

A.G. Howard

Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.

George F. Will

But the arrogance of old age can cloak itself in the authority of past accomplishments, which can serve to confirm the belief that one’s arrogance is justly held. It can shield a man from the realization that his beliefs have calcified, that he can no longer assess a situation accurately at first glance, that the world has changed around him and left him behind. Guarded from this knowledge, he remains content.

Dexter Palmer

To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I was not born to wait.

Gwenda Bond

It's always wrong to hate but it's never wrong to love.

Lady Gaga

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

They who shared none of my defeats should take no pride in celebrating my successes.

Adhish Mazumder

Go ragged then, but pride makes a poor covers; once one man laughs you're naked.

Geraldine Harris

Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.

Gwenda Bond

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

Jane Austen

...my pride in Joachim Mahlke was as sweet as chocolate creams.

Günter Grass

If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?

Elisabeth Elliot

Pride ill becomes a beggar, ser.

George R.R. Martin

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to the most ernest disciple but Christ says to us then what He said to His disciples long ago, when many of them had given u pin disgust, "Do you also want to leave me?" If we answer as PEter did, "Lord to whom else shall we go? Your words are words of eternal life," our rebel thoughts are captured once more. The way of holiness is again visible.

Elisabeth Elliot

I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea.

James Baldwin

Pride is all about selfishness. Valuing and preferring ourselves, our agendas, our perspectives over anything or anyone else. Pride is easily o ended (“How dare he say that!”). Pride is easily irritated (“ at’s not what I said!”). Pride is easily embittered (“I am never speaking to her again!”). Pride has no problem breaking up relationship based on misunderstanding.

Robert Hotchkin

No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth...

Isaac Asimov

Pride could be painful sometimes. And right now, hers was suffocating

Calia Read

Self importance is pride of a soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they could take pride in, possess, value, as one would a family heirloom.

Khaled Hosseini

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