Pride Quotes And Sayings

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“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

“I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.”
– Craig Ferguson

“For the believer, humility is honesty about one’s greatest flaws to a degree in which he fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.”
– Criss Jami

“The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.”
– Criss Jami

“Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.”
– Criss Jami

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

“More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill – none have wrestled without pride.”
– Dan Gable

“Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.”
– David Hume

“Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.”
– David Schwarzer

“Boys were so proud – you always had to let them think they were good at things.”
– Diane Zahler

“Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.”
– Douglas Wilson

“Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone”
– Egyptian Proverb

“We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear,” he said. “Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.”
– Elizabeth Goudge

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
– Emily Brontë

“Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.”
– Eric Hoffer

“The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s.”
– Ezra Taft Benson

“People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”
– François de La Rochefoucauld

“One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? ‘Make way, we are coming! Give us every right and don’t you dare breathe a word before us. Pay us every sort of respect, such as no one’s ever heard of, and we shall treat you worse than the lowest lackey!’ They strive for justice, they stand on their rights, and yet they’ve slandered him like infidels in their article. We demand, we don’t ask, and you will get no gratitude from us, because you are acting for the satisfaction of your own conscience! Queer sort of reasoning!… He has not borrowed money from you, he doesn’t owe you anything, so what are you reckoning on, if not his gratitude? So how can you repudiate it? Lunatics! They regard society as savage and inhuman, because it cries shame on the seduced girl; but if you think society inhuman, you must think that the girl suffers from the censure of society, and if she does, how is it you expose her to society in the newspapers and expect her not to suffer? Lunatics! Vain creatures! They don’t believe in God, they don’t believe in Christ! Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you’ll end by eating up one another, that’s what I prophesy. Isn’t that topsy-turvydom, isn’t it infamy?”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.”
– Garth Nix

“Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.”
– Gary Ryan Blair

“Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”
– George Eliot

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