Pride Quotes - Page 5

People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it's those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.

Only wise men can differentiate between what is a matter of pride and what is a principle of dignity.

Perfection isn't necessarily found only in publicly accepted trends. Perfection is found in self.

Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues.

Pride begins when someone starts to assume that s/he is the custodian of all truths and attempts to be right in all circumstances, which is IMPOSSIBLE!

It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.

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

Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Getting drunk with success and sick with ambition only leads to one route destruction!

Words often bring with them the illusion of transparency, as though they allowed us to understand everything, control everything, put everything in order. Modernity is talkative because it is proud, unless the converse is true. Is our incessant talking perhaps what makes us proud?

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

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986

More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.

He can be made to take a positive pleasure in the perception that the two sides of his life are inconsistent... by exploiting his vanity. He can... enjoy kneeling beside the grocer on Sunday just because he remembers that the grocer could not possibly understand the urbane and mocking world which he inhabited on Saturday evening; and contrariwise, to enjoy the bawdy and blasphemy over the coffee with these admirable friends all the more because he is aware of a "deeper," "spiritual" world within him which they can not understand. You see the idea - the worldly friends touch him on one side and the grocer on the other, and he is the complete, balanced, complex man who sees round them all. Thus, while being permanently treacherous to at least two sets of people, he will feel, instead of same, a continual under-current of self-satisfaction... and that to cease to do so would be "priggish," "intolerant," and... "Puritanical.

one primary enemy of the Gospel—legalism—comes in two forms. Some people avoid the gospel and try to save themselves by keeping the rules, doing what they’re told, maintaining the standards, and so on (you could call this “front-door legalism”). Other people avoid the gospel and try to save themselves by breaking the rules, doing whatever they want, developing their own autonomous standards, and so on (you could call this “back-door legalism”).

I know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come very cheap indeed.

... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.

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

Has he written to you?''He writes frequently.''Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.

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.

One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.

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

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

Love doesn't discriminate and nor should the law. Not in this country, not in this world, not in this lifetime.

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, 'By jove! I'm being humble!', and almost immediately pride—pride at his own humility—will appear. If he awakes to the danger and tries to smother this new form of pride, make him proud of his attempt—and so on, through as many stages a you please. But don't try this too long, for fear you may awake his sense of humour and proportion, in which case he will merely laugh at you and go to bed.

Pride grants you a happily never after.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

Pride ruined the angels.

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

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

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

Cherubs fan our foolish fires, filling hearts with mad desires. They prick our pride and haughtiness with quick, angelic naughtiness.

Let us know our differences! Let us understand our differences! Let us know and understand that we are all different people with different differences! We all have different differences that are not all that different! Understanding is the matter! When we get to know and understand our differences well, we shall least spit on each other just because of our differences!

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or to speak of them with grief and pity. Spiritual pride is very apt to suspect others, but a humble Christian is most guarded about himself. He is as suspicious of nothing in the world as he is of his own heart. The proud person is apt to find fault with other believers, that they are low in grace, and to be much in observing how cold and dead they are and to be quick to note their deficiencies. But the humble Christian has so much to do at home and sees so much evil in his own heart and is so concerned about it that he is not apt to be very busy with other hearts. He is apt to esteem others better than himself.

Soul (Atma) remains very far from where kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are created, the Soul is quite far from there. Where there is absence of kashays, there lies the ‘religion of Vitrags (the enlightened ones)’, and where kashays are present, lies the ‘relative religion’!

If you want to protect your pride, you don't need people to like you!

I do not believe it possible for one to genuinely love Truth more than people (or vice versa). One might fall into the snare of loving the search more than people, or the pride of having exposed something or someone, but not the truth itself. For if you love Truth you love people; because to love people at all and without illusion, you must also love the truth about them.

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.

Self-consciousness isn't just A curse. It is part of THE curse.

Pride makes easy decisions hard. Humility makes hard decisions easy.