Quotes About Pride

Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to save face by not owning up to shortcomings.

The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind.

Lydia supposed his headstone had been ordered. Something large and garish made of the finest marble and phallic shaped because being dead didn't stop you from being a dick.

Lydia supposed his headstone had been ordered. Something large and garish made of the finest marble and phallic shaped because being dead didn't stop you from being a dick.

That man needs to build a bridge to get over himself.

The greatest hindrance to faith is again and again just the pride and anxiety of our human hearts.

But I will tell you that it's maddening to me that men seem to know which way is north, and which way is west—and are always overweeningly proud about that accomplishment, by the way—and yet still you all more than likely will manage to get us poor women lost." "Are you referring to all men, or to your father and brother?" "My father, brother and you," she corrected sweetly.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.