Quotes About Pride

Shame is pride's cloak.

Pride comes before a fall.

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Ur pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Possessed he is with greatness and speaks not to himself but with a pride that quarrels at self-breath.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

The best form of respect is self respect. Give it to yourself and others will see that you won't settle for anything less.

If you have self respect, then I've got respect for you.

Every girl should have self respect.

Self-righteousness is the most shameless slut of all.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.

Many have passed the rocks of gross sins - who have suffered shipwreck upon the sands of self-righteousness.

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

The self-righteous never apologize.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Pride is such a weak emotion rooted in self pity, vanity, and distortion of value, how can you ever value another or humbly value life.

The only respect that matters in this world is self-respect.