Quotes About Pride

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

Don't be so proud for being educated then other, you will never able to calculate your own hart-beets

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for...

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

I know my kids will be incredible, just not as great as me.

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations.

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian

It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.