Quotes About Pride

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.

Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance.