Pride Is Bad Quotes

#1. Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.

Andre Agassi

#2. False modesty is as bad as false pride. Know exactly what you are capable of at any moment, and act accordingly. Any other path is folly - and could be deadly in battle.

Christie Golden

#3. . A terrible battle between two wolves. One wolf is bad - pride, jealousy, greed. The other wolf is good - kindness, hope, truth. The child asks, 'Who will win?' The grandfather answers simply, 'The one you feed.

Tristan Bancks

#4. A student whose life is filled with woes least had and understood the hands of a good teacher that shape lives in a distinctive way

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said ... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

Stephen King

#6. Do you want it bad enough to get over being hurt?

Richard Castle

#7. Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.

Henry Rollins

#8. One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

Criss Jami

#9. If anger-pride-deceit-greed occur, let them occur. There is nothing wrong if you have thoughts of bad conduct, do not be afraid, however, you must repent (do pratikraman) and turn it around, this will result in a high level of dharmadhyan [auspicious contemplation] .

Dada Bhagwan

#10. I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.

Alejandro Zambra

#11. In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.

Dada Bhagwan

#12. You said a bad driver is only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. Confession is not all about telling your bad deeds to the public, but being proud of the bad things you have done so far.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#14. Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

Abu Bakr

#15. Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#16. Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

Charles Stross

#17. There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

John C. Maxwell

#18. If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments.

Sathya Sai Baba

#19. It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.

Genevieve Gorder

#20. Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts - not to hurt others.

George Eliot

#21. [H]umans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong:;; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that's not a bad start.

Warren Farrell

#22. He [David Foster Wallace] compares raising children to raising books, you should take pride in the work you do inside a family and not from how they make out in the world. "It's good to want a child to do well, but it's bad to want that glory to reflect back on you," is what he says.

David Lipsky

#23. People of bad pride always have to have someone to reject. From politics to relationships ... just don't let it be you.

Phil Mitchell

#24. Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness inspite of much wealth; ostentation in (good) deeds; and pride in their own intelligence.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#25. That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

Robert Southey