Quotes About Pride

Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.

To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.

Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.