Top 34 Quotes About False Pride
#1. I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#3. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Alfred The Great
#4. The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within..
Kabir
#5. 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
#6. The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#7. Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
Jane Addams
#8. The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. Conceit and false pride on the part of a nation prevent the rise of remorse for its crime.
Albert Einstein
#9. 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
#10. May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.
Joyce Rachelle
#11. The most regretful behavior always leaches from a wound to our sanctimonious pride.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#12. Pride puffs one up with a false sense of independence. Proud people always feel that they can live independently from God and from other people. Proud people feel entitled to do what they want when they want to.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#13. Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God's blessings.
Shannon L. Alder
#14. A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.
Edward Gibbon
#15. That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride.
George R R Martin
#16. False humility is more insulting than open pride!
Brandon Mull
#17. Things change as minds change. Egos and prides vanish in the darkness of night. The false mask of vanity burns in the natural propensity to be happy. Who wants to be sad, after all?
Girdhar Joshi
#18. When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
Criss Jami
#19. I thought of this, tell me whether it is true or false; you do not know something, you cannot know everything and you can miss anything
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#20. False modesty is evidence of secret pride, Mr. Winterborne
Lisa Kleypas
#21. False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#23. False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
Criss Jami
#24. High and holy ambition
to be a saint
is not opposed to holy humility
total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility.
Peter Kreeft
#26. The devil has a thousand names," said Crews, voice rising, "but the name he takes the most pride in is Prince of Lies, because he is such a convincing fraud. Even God himself was fooled by Satan once, so what hope do we have to tell what's truth and what's false?
Robert Ferrigno
#27. Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#28. 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
#29. Who anger, nor joy, nor pride, nor false modesty, nor stupefaction, nor vanity,
Can draw away from the high ends of life, is ever considered wise certainly.
[20] - 33 Mahatma Vidur
Munindra Misra
#30. the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It
George R R Martin
#31. The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful - and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex.
Jane Austen
#32. There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
Douglas Hurd
#33. What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#34. We are taught that these are dualisms: Jewish/Arab, public/private, visible/invisible, Black/white, privilege/oppression, pride/shame. But these are false separations that don't exist.
Daisy Hernandez
