Pride Quotes

Ignorance is a flaw and pride is another blemish caused by ignorance.

~ Bahman Solati

The seeking face that does not alter when presented with peace and reason, must bask in its wearer's prideful ignorance.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

The seeking face that will not alter when presented with reason, must delight in its wearer's prideful ignorance.

~ Justin Kyle Mcfarlane Beau

Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

~ Bill Maher

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

~ Henry Cloud

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.

~ Kevin Deyoung

Considerable social science research has found that constant praise of children can backfire, because it so often consists of telling children how smart they are, not of praising children for the things they actually do. As a result, many children become protective of their image of being smart and are reluctant to take chances that might actually damage that image.

~ Charles Murray

But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.

~ A.s. Byatt

A man protects his fish from rats by keeping it under a cat's watch. How wise!Another buys a gun for security reasons, but decides to kill a ghost with it. How smart!One prays to God for safety, as he climbs a palm tree with sewing thread. How intelligent!Man does not want the truth, and God does not want lies, yet there is no third option.One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing. That's pride. Another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. Humility!Not all that glitters is gold, and not all gold glitters. Watch, with the eyes, and also with the heart.Just because all things are lawful, don't make them expedient. And because a thing is right doesn't mean it edifies.With Faith, Wisdom comes highly recommended!

~ Olaotan Fawehinmi

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

~ Terry Pratchett

It is of the utmost importance to us to be kept humble. Consciousness of self-importance is a hateful delusion, but one into which we fall as naturally as weeds grow on a dunghill. We cannot be used of the Lord but that we also dream of personal greatness, we think ourselves almost indispensible to the church, pillars of the cause, and foundations of the temple of God. We are nothings and nobodies, but that we do not think so is very evident, for as soon as we are put on the shelf we begin anxiously to enquire, ‘How will the work go on without me?’ As well might the fly on the coach wheel enquire, ‘How will the mails be carried without me?’ Far better men have been laid in the grave without having brought the Lord’s work to a standstill, and shall we fume and fret because for a little season we must lie upon the bed of languishing? God sometimes weakens our strength in a way at the precise juncture when our presence seems most needed to teach us that we are not necessary to God’s work, and that when we are most useful, He can easily do without us. If this be the practical lesson, the rough schooling may be easily endured for assuredly it is beyond all things desirable that self should be kept low and the Lord alone be magnified.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough, this person is the same person quickest to resort to dismissive name-calling, such as 'bigot' or 'zealot'. And oddly enough, he is always the one, the 'open-minded' one, who adamantly protests for, not only himself, but others not to listen to any type of scholarly theological truth inherently for the sake of his own personal, moral beliefs.

~ Criss Jami

Explaining temptation by saying “God is testing me” or “Satan is attacking me” positions “me” either as the victim, if I am defeated, or the hero, if I prevail. But confessing that “My heart is desperately wicked” provides no such comforts. It heads off all attempts to shift blame, and cuts down all the pretensions of spiritual pride.

~ Colin S. Smith

Pride is yet again in the way of our mind’s ability to accept that we may not be the most intelligent and advanced people in the universe or on Earth since it was formed along with the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.

~ Mario Stinger

Never in the history of mankind has pride succeeded in putting food on a hungry man's table.

~ Hafiz

It was the only act of rebellion I knew—to be worthy of such an insult as “butterfly.

~ R.j. Hernández

If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this. Or who would desert his beloved or fail him in the hour of danger? The veriest coward would become an inspired hero, equal to the bravest, at such a time; Love would inspire him.

~ Plato

May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.

~ Joyce Rachelle

If you’re not proud of what you do, you’re not done.

~ Frank Sonnenberg

The greatest reward for your actions is not the respect you gain from others but the respect you gain for yourself.

~ T Jay Taylorlor

There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood. ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

~ Angelica Hopes

Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

~ Sophocles

I grin, and he beams with

~ A.g. Howard

How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.

~ Robert Moment

Everyone’s got a little devil inside them, I’ve just learned to control mine that’s why you’ve not seen it yet; I advise you to keep yours under control before it ruins you.

~ Dauglas Dauglas

Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary.

~ Jane Austen

Cortax: “Sometimes, life doesn't work out the way you wanted or expected, but that's fine. Keep your head up, chest out, emotions and morals in check and be proud of the person you are. Don't let those unexpected surprises keep you from reaching your goals. And again, be proud, like I am, proud to see my son grow up into a man.

~ Michael Rogers

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

~ Criss Jami

Honor, More charged, 'is the religion of tragedy.' Emotions such as love, hate, ambition, pride, and jealousy, 'form a dazzling system of worldly morality,' which contradicts 'the spirit of that religion whose characteristics are charity, meekness, peaceableness, longsuffering, gentleness, forgiveness.

~ Karen Swallow Prior

Eisenhower on Patton: Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

~ Jean Edward Smith

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were....Our creed is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There is that little difference. We adhere to ours in practice, you don't.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

There is nothing new under the sun but that of the Son. Man's rebellion against God has always been because he would rather fall in pride than rise in humility.

~ Criss Jami

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors of extraordinary and reforming opinions, and outwardly to affect the profession of them; who, if they are such fools, have, nevertheless, not the power to plant them in their own conscience.

~ Michel De Montaigne

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God.

~ Lionel Suggs

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

~ Criss Jami

The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson