Quotes About Pride

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

What I am proud of is I have searched for the best of me and I have been a team man without fail.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

I man don't come red, I come Black

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.