Quotes About Pride

Pride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself.

When people who are driven by a vision see something wrong, they might say to their teammates, "I feel bad because we're not building the kind of system we can be proud of. What shall we do so we don't feel this way?" On

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

The insolence of office.

We noticed a crasher at the bar - that shows what a real man he is - he's here to show he's not ticked for not being asked.

Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is 4000 miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Self-praise is no recommendation.

Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

There is a certain noble pride, through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

Pride, perceiving humility honourable, often borrows her cloak.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.

Pride ruined the angels.

The proud hate pride - in others.