Pride Self Quotes

#1. One problem with gratitude is that it competes with the sense of pride, self-reliance and accomplishment we have. We want to think what we have is the result of our efforts rather than the gifts, good turns and opportunities provided us by others.

Michael Josephson

#2. If you can be free from pride, self-pity, self-centeredness, selfishness, jealousy, envy, intolerance, impatience, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, arrogance, and dishonesty, then there is a state of serenity and connectedness within.

Russell Brand

#3. In the ignorant state, there is a 'limit' for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell.1

Andrew Murray

#5. Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although
difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Brian Tracy

#6. But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

Jeff Hobbs

#7. Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.

Amy Irving

#8. Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me a sense of appreciation toward God. Now that I'm getting older, I really appreciate the talents God gave me. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.

Amanda Borden

#9. His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.

Alice Munro

#10. Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is still at the bottom.

Anthony Liccione

#11. The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Iris Murdoch

#12. How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.

Robert Moment

#13. All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

Paula Heller Garland

#14. Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Paulo Coelho

#15. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

Rudyard Kipling

#16. I thought I'd take style to its limit ... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.

Grace Jones

#17. 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

#18. Confession is the giving up of ALL self-righteousness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#19. Eisenhower on Patton: Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

Jean Edward Smith

#20. Pride. You have it where you can have it.

Marilyn French

#21. We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

Elizabeth Goudge

#22. The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

Nikki Giovanni

#24. The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#25. What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#26. Pride lives on the defensive against anyone and anything that tries to subtract from its self-sustained worth. Confidence, on the other hand, is driven by the certainty of God-given identity and the conviction that nothing can take that identity away.

Beth Moore

#27. Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.

Dada Bhagwan

#28. Our Nation has a diverse and extremely rich cultural heritage. It is a source of pride and strength to millions of Americans who look to the arts for inspiration, communication and the opportunity for creative self-expression.

Gerald R. Ford

#29. Pride makes a god of self, covetousness makes a god of money, sensuality makes a god of the belly; whatever is esteemed or loved, feared or served, delighted in or depended on, more than God, that (whatever it is) we do in effect make a god of.

Matthew Henry

#30. Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#31. Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Criss Jami

#32. The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

H.L. Mencken

#33. Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore witness to the needs of the Clan, and was never swayed by self-interest or pride. He would have made a fine leader.

Erin Hunter

#34. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

Criss Jami

#35. Jane austen says: a heroine has pride despite her imperfections.

Patrice Hannon

#36. Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#37. In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how he could have been so many kinds of a fool for so long without realising it.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#38. Only the gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage. Destroy self-exaltation and increase confidence. Destroy the pushiness of self-assertion and deliver from the paralysis of self-doubt.

John Piper

#39. The process of setting a goal, learning the necessary steps to achieve it, and giving it your best until you've mastered it will generate high self-esteem and pride. Those are feelings associated with joy.

Jude Bijou

#40. The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

Colette

#41. The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches
and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair ... toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

Phil Vischer

#42. Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don't see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing.

Nina Easton

#43. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own law, I have a right to my self, my hatred and my desires, my life and my death. The

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#44. Self Importance is the worst sin a person can get into

Rajesh Nanoo

#45. You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

Nathan Fillion

#46. Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

John C. Maxwell

#47. In life, when one gets to the point of a deeper sense of understanding about himself and his purpose, he least explains himself much to people who fail to understand him and his purpose. That must not be interpreted as neither pride nor an uncaring attitude but a great respect for purposefulness

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#48. Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

C. G. Jung

#49. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

C.S. Lewis

#50. For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

Charley Pride

#51. Awareness' will not arise where there is deceit along with self-pride (maan). If there is deceit with self-pride, then one can never see the self-pride.

Dada Bhagwan

#52. I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#53. To reduce the demands of God's law is to do violence to the holiness of God. To inflate one's own self-assessment to the point of self-delusion is an extreme form of pride.

R.C. Sproul

#54. Both low self-esteem and pride are horrible nuisances to our own future and to everyone around us.

Timothy Keller

#55. Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

Ezra Taft Benson

#56. Baby girl you need to stop it, all that pride and self esteem got you angry bout this girl I'm wit in all them magazines.

Drake

#57. How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency.

Pope Benedict XVI

#58. Even the self-assured truth-finders and self-proclaimed freedom-fighters reject Truth. As admirable as such endeavors may be, they still only really want it so long as it to some extent confirms what they had already presumed to be true.

Criss Jami

#59. The walls of hell are coated with arrogance, and the floor is covered with pride.

T.A. Cline

#60. His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#61. Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem.

Muhammad Ali

#62. You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Criss Jami

#63. The Mind may relish the companionship of bloated self-pride - but the Soul, will not.

Eleesha

#64. 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.

Vaclav Havel

#65. I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#66. Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).

Dada Bhagwan

#67. Things that are attached to the body do not just add beauty to the body or probably enhances the self confidence of the man within, but they are also the very reasons for pride and excessive self confidence

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#68. Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think, here comes, thank Heaven, another enemy!

Edmond Rostand

#69. How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young or slender. 'Thank God!' we say,' those illusions are gone.' Everything added to the self is a burden as well as a pride.

Alain De Botton

#70. Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don't you know that? [ ... ] Your friends do. They're like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can't save them. You can only drown with them.

Stephen King

#71. Self importance is pride of a soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#72. But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn't leave something for it? How did you create a life of meaning and pride?

Kiran Desai

#73. Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Charles Spurgeon

#74. 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

#75. The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

Edward Bach

#76. Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.

Criss Jami

#77. Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Billy Graham

#78. It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be.

Phillips Brooks

#79. If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.

T.F. Hodge

#80. The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#81. Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn't necessary for you, the actor, to like yourself - self-love isn't easy to come by for most of us - but you must learn to trust who you are. There is no one else like you.

Michael Shurtleff

#82. There are times when Pride must transform into Vanity in order to reach the astray echo of the reflection of self.

Lionel Suggs

#83. Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

Hugh Laurie

#84. And the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.

Jane Austen

#85. If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs ... Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

Terry Goodkind

#86. Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.

Eugene H. Peterson

#87. It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

Gary Oldman

#88. For so long Marianne and Albrecht and many of their friends had known Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal to people's most selfish, self-pitying emotions and ignorance was an embarrassment for their country.

Jessica Shattuck

#89. To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.

Jane Addams

#90. Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#91. Take pride in what you do & let the quality of your work be your signature

Kloby

#92. But I also knew if I could somehow replace my doubt with hope, my fear with courage, and my self-pity with a sense of pride, then I just might be able to do this.

Bear Grylls

#93. Neither boost about your own strength nor dignity but the sacred grace of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#94. It's amazing though," said Kenneth, "what you can get away with if you give up caring about anything else, like self-respect and pride and all that stuff. Turning yourself into a projectile, so to speak.

Amy Witting

#95. But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

C.J. Mahaney

#96. A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#97. Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.

Ezra Taft Benson

#98. The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

Jack Weatherford

#99. Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not know of the doctrine.

Henry Ward Beecher

#100. I did this so well'- one says this and tastes the sweetness of subtle pride of doership. One enjoys the sweetness of this subtle pride. There is pain [suffering] with projection of doer-ship. God is eternal bliss and that indeed is the nature of the Self!

Dada Bhagwan