Quotes About Pride

Look back on your wedding And be filled with joy and pride Deservedly so, for the many years You've flourished, side by side

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom.

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

So there is nothing to be proud of these worldly possessions. What you are to be proud of, or to be conscious of is your spirit. Spirit is the only thing that can kindle another spirit.

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.