Quotes About Pride

If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

I am a man who loves my country, the United States.

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.

I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!

As players, you just play for the club. I love Man United, I'm going to play for Man United, and that's what my focus is on.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.

Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!