Quotes About Pride

Man is not meant to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.

Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

Basically, man, I just love myself.

Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.