Quotes About Pride

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.

In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.

To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.