Quotes About Pride

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

I think most people have that out-of-body experience when they win the Oscar.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.

Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.

Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

Pride can make you feel strong, but never make you feel happy.

Do not take someone's silence as his pride, perhaps he is busy fighting with himself.

Arrogance makes one victim of self pride and inflicts with the fondness of selfishness to the degree that nothing will satisfy the arrogant except false flattery and fake praise.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Open your mind free yourself Before you walk through that door Swallow your pride be yourself And hold to the rope of the almighty Allah.

Pride is yet another form of ego. It keeps us in the past and closes our eyes on the now. It stops us from letting go and being free.

You say I should be straight, I say taste the rainbow! bi...!

The Bible never says humble yourselves before man, it says humble yourselves before the Lord, and He shall lift you up. And many men are not walking in the true way of the Lord.