Top 56 Pride Itself Quotes
#1. Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
Samuel Johnson
#2. They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.
Augustus William Hare
#3. The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma.
Bertrand Russell
#4. The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.
Criss Jami
#5. The destructive power of pride is that it countenances nothing higher than itself. Because of an inherent fault in our nature, man's bias is on the side of error. In our willful desire to live independently of God, we have severed the lifeline that flows from the source of all life.
Billy Graham
#6. 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 now and then peek out and show itself.
Benjamin Franklin
#7. They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.
Gregory David Roberts
#8. The work, the pride in your work, the worth of the work itself ... all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they really were when the pain got bad enough.
Stephen King
#9. Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.
Khalil Gibran
#10. Pride always puts [self] above others - and cuts [itself] off from them as a result. No one likes an arrogant, prideful person.
Billy Graham
#11. With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.
Criss Jami
#12. What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.
Joseph Conrad
#13. Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#14. It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
William Shakespeare
#15. The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride ... It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer ... and read the Scriptures ... the only object in life is that Christ may be honored.
Billy Graham
#16. A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.
Jairam Ramesh
#17. Pride is the beginning of sin. And what is pride but the craving for undue exaltation? And this is undue exaltation - when the soul abandons Him to whom it ought to cleave as its end, and becomes a kind of end to itself.
Augustine Of Hippo
#18. Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer ... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician
C.S. Lewis
#19. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?
Joseph Conrad
#20. That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride.
George R R Martin
#21. Any kind of self-concern, including a self-concern that leads one to shut down and give up (as, for example, a fear to fail) is itself a kind of pride. Feeling depressed that I am worse than others is as much an act of pride as feeling myself better. Both are acts of self-concern.
James E. Ferrell
#22. In 1991, the government unleashed the power of India and created a partnership between itself and industry. As a result, India has emerged as an economic success story, and that is a matter of pride for all of us.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
#23. Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
Paul Bryant
#24. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
J.K. Rowling
#25. We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.
Pietro Metastasio
#27. God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself.
Francis Frangipane
#28. This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.
Augustine Of Hippo
#29. Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.
George Vecsey
#31. What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.
Sylvia Thompson
#32. An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption
with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#33. My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.
Phyllis Gotlieb
#34. There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.
Joseph Addison
#35. A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
Malcolm X
#36. Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.
John Stott
#37. Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?
Pope Gregory I
#39. Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#40. No. You should take pleasure in following the Lethani. If you fight well, you should take pride in doing a thing well. For the fighting itself you should feel only duty and sorrow. Only barbarians and madmen take pleasure in combat. Whoever loves the fight itself has left the Lethani behind.
Patrick Rothfuss
#41. I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.
Big Boi
#42. the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It
George R R Martin
#43. A person truly humbled permits not anything to put him in a rage. As it is pride which dies the last in the soul, so it is passion which is last destroyed in the outward conduct. A soul thoroughly dead to itself, finds nothing of rage left.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#44. What is pride but an appetite for inordinate exaltation? Now, exaltation is inordinate when the soul cuts itself off from the very Source to which it should keep close and somehow makes itself and becomes an end to itself.
Augustine Of Hippo
#45. Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.
Criss Jami
#46. Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.
Bliss Carman
#47. I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.
Rupert Giles
#49. This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Walter Lang
#51. Carry your wounds with pride,
Believe in yourself;
amongst greatest of catastrophe'
You grew into the being you are
And I think that in itself,
is certainly enough.
Nikki Rowe
#52. Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction.
Marion Woodman
#53. Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.
Henry David Thoreau
#54. Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Samuel Johnson
#55. Look in the heart and write ... The man who writes like that, without pride or artifice, as it were for himself, is in reality speaking for humanity. Humanity will recognize itself in him, because it is human nature that has inspired the discourse. Life recognizes life!
Antonin Sertillanges
#56. A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation in the dust. And then I saw... I saw that he was as incomparable in beauty as he was in terror. I was saved, I was rescued.
Rabindranath Tagore
