Pride Quotes - page 6

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others. (Thomas Browne)
[I] pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value. View quote
John Waters
Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality. View quote
Jacques Ellul
Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Only in recent history has "working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery. View quote
Eugène Delacroix
I was one of the first people to almost actually vomit over hearing the use of the phrase "family values" and I pride myself on never having fallen for the idea that Barbara Bush was sweet and grandmotherly. I met Barbara Bush and, as I expected, she was a tank with eyes, not a nice person at all and why should that blow anybody away? View quote
Paula Poundstone
I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. View quote
George Chapman
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. (Nicolas Chamfort)
In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. You will see it perhaps often in this History. For even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my Humility. [Part II, p. 76]. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt. View quote
Václav Havel
There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way. View quote
Jane Austen
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride-- where these is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation. View quote
Jane Austen
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. View quote
Walter Bagehot
There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence. (John Calvin)
So do your duty, boys, and join with pride Serve your country in her suicide Find the flags so you can wave goodbye But just before the end even treason might be worth a try This country is too young to die I declare the war is over It's over, it's over. View quote
Phil Ochs
Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity. View quote
Bernard Mandeville