183 quotes found
“When a man's pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult.”
“In a sermon entitled “God’s Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. ‘Ah,’ said Napoleon, ‘but I propose and dispose too.’ How do you thin...”
“When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they form a powerful inducement toward the ultimate form of pride, namely, atheism. The safest way to ...”
“Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.”
“...how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?”
“Don’t be proud-you don’t have anything”
“He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz”
“The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.”
“Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be “purchased” at someone else’s expense.”
“Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the powerTo reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul—A man like that, when you know hi...”
“Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the nature of his memory problem. It wasn't pride that prevented him from asking for help but a deep av...”
“You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.”
“The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion and does not seek to make converts to it.”
“There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.”
“When a proud man hears another praised he feels himself injured.”
“I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peace...”
“Pride perceiving humility honourable often borrows her cloak.”
“There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.”
“They are proud in humility proud in that they are not proud.”
“Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.”
