Quotes About Pride

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best.

When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.