183 quotes found
“My pride fell with my fortunes.”
“All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.”
“Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”
“Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.”
“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.”
“You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.”
“Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.”
“The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion and does not seek to make converts to it.”
“Pride is the mask of one's own faults.”
“Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.”
“There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.”
“The sun will set without thy assistance.”
“When a proud man hears another praised he feels himself injured.”
“A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.”
“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 peac...”
“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.”
“Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.”
“They are proud in humility proud in that they are not proud.”
“Pride ruined the angels.”
