Pride Quotes

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

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

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

... 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

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

Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great, your country becomes great because of your pride in it.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

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

qYour pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great, your country becomes great because of your pride in it.

~ Idowu Koyenikan