Quotes About Pride

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

Be with someone who is equally proud to be with you.

People don't accept their mistake that's why the relationships end. In the end you lose someone you love because of your pride.

I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.

Melissa and I are the proudest parents ever and this is the best thing that has happened to us this year!

I don't see why I should disguise the magnificence of my education when you do nothing to hide the paucity of yours.

Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.

One thing the Bible makes perfectly clear is that God absolutely hates pride and loves humility.

We think we can do it without God, or worse, that God can't do it without us.

Obviously no one has ever cautioned you against pricking the vanity of proud men or wild animals; neither is completely predictable." "And which of those categories do you fit into?" "I'll leave the choice solely to your discretion," he mused and bowed solicitously.

Ah, Maura, ye were right," he whispered. "All those years ago ye were right." Alexander leaned forward, and Lochiel waved his hand in a dismissing gesture. "'Tis naught but somethin' Maura said tae me on our weddin' night. She said we Highlanders possess the pride o' lions. Like lions, we nae fear tae temper our actions, only pride tae govern them.

The wolves were circling, wary of the might and presence of the kingly beasts who dared to challenge possession of the crown and so far, the lions had proved to be invincible. But should they drop their guard for an instant, or should the scavengers discover the quixotic virtue of their armor, all of the honor, pride, and passion in the world would not save them. It would, instead, be the cause of their ultimate downfall.

You are so right, my love, she thought in wild despair. No man, no king, no ghost is strong enough to come between us; only the indominable splendor of your honor, your pride, and your passion can accomplish that.

He would stay with his brothers out of loyalty, fight alongside his clansmen out of pride, but if he died, it would be for Scotland, for his love of the barren, windswept moors and jagged corries he had been unable to call home for so many years and wanted so desperately to call home again. His passion was his strength, but it was also his greatest weakness.

The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be.

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.

Sinful attempts to control may come from a lust for power or from unsuccessful attempts to correct problem situations. Underneath sinful attempts to control or manipulate is the deadliest sin of all: pride. It is pride that puts self, self's interests, desires, plans, and ideas first. It is often the self-righteous pride of thinking that self knows what is best.

that overwhelming desire to find a way to succeed, if only to be spared public humiliation.

As LEGO found out more than a decade ago, the question "What are you most proud of?" can yield surprising and transformative answers.

Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?

We need a millstone around our neck to keep us humble.

We exalt our calling, not to gain glory among men, or money, or satisfaction, or favor, but because people need to be assured that the words we speak are the words of God. This is no sinful pride. It is holy pride.

In brief, trust not in any who exalt you, but in those who humiliate you. For this is the judgment of God:

lest we be puffed up and make an idol out of our righteousness.