Quotes About Pride

Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with the knife or sword. Wherever honor is at issue, it comes with a sense that dignity can be lost, and therefore must be constantly defended.

A warrior's honor is his willingness to play a game on which he stakes everything. His grandeur is directly proportional to how far he can fall.

He goes his way Without relying on others And does not pride himself On walking alone.70

To use the mind for purposes of pride and aggrandizement is like a gusty wind or a violent storm; it cannot last long.23

We never let go of a belief once fixed in our minds" quoted by an Appalachian women with an air of pride.' (This quote explains a lot about my family)

It was the kind of country that made you feel better about yourself.

But, he added, in a rare moment of self-revelation, "such belong not to the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle.

In years gone by, when Israel's military pride was at its height, the standard jocular boast about Lebanon had been that, if ever it needed to conquer it, its army band would suffice. Now, upon returning from their service there, its soldiers threw themselves to the ground and kissed Israeli soil in gratitude for their survival, or, in the despised Lebanese and Palestinian manner, expressed their immense relief in celebratory salvos of automatic fire.87

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity.

Il est difficile de parler de soi longtemps sans vanité.

It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity. - My Own Life

Major Message Bad attitudes and demands that the Lord give us what we want are unwise. The people had a bad and rebellious attitude. Rather than humbly requesting some meat to go with the manna, if it had been in harmony with the Lord's will, they demanded meat and complained loudly to Moses, as if he were the Lord. Their prideful and strident approach is answered by the Lord with a severe lesson.

Holding onto history is not nearly as important as where we're headed. Pride matters less than power.

At the end of the day that statue is nothing more than a chunk of granite and copper sitting in front of the library. That statue matters a lot less than the end goal. Holding onto history is not nearly as important as where we are headed. Pride matters less than power.

23rd May, 1872.—There seems but little prospect of Christianity spreading by ordinary means among Mohamadans. Their pride is a great obstacle, and is very industriously nurtured by its votaries. No new invention or increase of power on the part of Christians seems to disturb the self-complacent belief that ultimately all power and dominion in this world will fall into the hands of Moslems. Mohamad

America is a great country—the greatest

There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.

God made me an Indian.

God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.