Quotes About Pride

and somehow, the more we would face our own demons of pride, greed, and lust, the more gentle and kind we would become toward others, the less judgmental, the less harsh, the more empathetic, because we realize as never before that everyone is pitched in an invisible inner battle, and the battle isn't easy for anyone.

Won't I be seeking some status of superiority?

I do know this about pride: pride is tiring, a cruel task-master, a complicator, a destroyer. Humility, in contrast, relaxes, refreshes, relieves, simplifies, renews. To the degree that becoming childlike includes becoming humble, humility releases childlike play, laughter, sleep, smiles, fun. Our pride forces us to take ourselves so seriously, which leads us to take others less seriously and God less seriously still.

In Dune and Dune Messiah , he [Frank Herbert] was cautioning against pride and overconfidence, that form of narcissism described in Greek tragedies that invariably led to the great fall.

Dhartha's deep blue eyes flashed. "This is not about pride, Aurelius Venport. This is only about killing a pest of the desert.

Vor laughed, proud of his place here. He quoted what he'd been taught all his life. "I am the pinnacle of humanity—a trustee of Omnius, the son of General Agamemnon.

The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they try to hide their doubts and fears.

The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they try to hide their doubts and fears. —Bene Gesserit Axiom

It is not easy for some men to know they have done evil, for reasoning and honor are often clouded by pride.

When you choose the higher value over the lower, the more difficult over the easy, the right over the wrong, you feel good about yourself. Your self-esteem increases. You like and respect yourself more. You have a greater sense of personal pride.

T)he downfall of the wise and the mighty comes not from being strong or wise, but from thinking you are stronger and wiser than you truly are, than any being can truly be.

The very roots of destruction are in the achievement of success itself.

Pride, which we have called the root of vices, far from being satisfied with the extinction of one virtue, raises itself up against all the members of the soul, and as a universal and deadly disease corrupts the whole body.

Ooh, go ahead and poke fun at my poor queenology, Canada boy.

I had come to regard pride as the defining characteristic of a gentleman, when indeed I should think the word itself, gentleman, should impress upon me what aspect I ought to have settled on as the defining one.

Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God's holiness and our sinfulness.

only those who are humble can consistently identify evidences of grace in others who need adjustment. It's something the proud and the self-righteous are incapable of.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.

It was important to remember who you were and where you came from, no matter how successful you became.

Stranahan told her not to mistake arrogance for pride. A guy like Chaz can revive his ego with the palm of his hand.

Animal joy in his being is implicit in all his movements and attitudes. Since earliest manhood the center of his life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it, not with weak indulgence, dependently, but with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens. […] He sizes women up with a glance, with sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them.

I never met a woman that didn't know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they've got.

I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is one-hundred-per-cent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don't ever call me a Polack.