Quotes About Pride

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.

I'm glad I'm funny. I'm glad I make people happy, because that's very important. But I'm proud to be known as a kind person.

Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?

I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego

The present era is so proud that it has produced a phenomenon which I imagine to be unprecedented: the present's resentment of the past, resentment because the past had the audacity to happen without us being there, without our cautious opinion and our hesitant consent, and even worse, without our gaining any advantage from it.

Ser filántropo conllevaba una cierta arrogancia, no era para sentimentales.

le lanzó una mirada llena de rabia; en ese momento le hubiera gustado reventar a puñetazos la cara de ese antiguo aliado que le desafiaba abiertamente, pero pensó que la concordia entre portugueses y brasileños bien valía comerse el orgullo y los deseos de poner en su sitio a ese hijo de la grandísima.

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans ' and smile.

Most people are glad to talk about their successes.

I didn't say a word. I just stared at him. I figured I didn't owe him an answer, and I was too proud to even talk. I didn't want to tell him a damn thing about me.

There is a pact of pride in a couple's love, a pact of glory, which is at least as fundamental as sexual feelings. These latter peter out silently in the two bodies, but the pact can only be broken by the spoken word.

It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?

By becoming emperor, I would once more put myself above my state.