Quotes About Foolish Pride

#1. It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

Charles Baudelaire

#2. Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen faith. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as taking pride in it.

Milan Kundera

#3. With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Criss Jami

#4. Pride often led men to foolish ends.

Alex Westmore

#5. Wise men will change their minds while the foolish stubbornly cling to their pride.

Terron James

#6. It's funny reading about how I behaved in the days before memories formed. So thanks for that input, Mom and Dad - wasn't so bad after all.

Connor Franta

#7. Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.

Chris Sligh

#8. Great times call for great men.

Jaroslav Hasek

#9. Dangerous. Reckless. Foolish. Mad. The words were beginning to feel more like badges of pride than blows. Downstairs,

V.E Schwab

#10. The pride Kaspar had seen in his father's eyes, despite the admonishing words about foolish acts, had branded the boy for life. 'Never be afraid.' He knew that no matter what, any choice must be made fearlessly, or else all would be lost.

Raymond E. Feist

#11. Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.

Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

#12. 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

#13. I don't want to feel this way around him. I want things to be normal. I want to be his friend, not another stupid girl holding out for something that will never happen.

Stephanie Perkins

#14. Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

Paul C. Nagel

#15. Pride is a foolish thing, but a powerful force

Patrick Rothfuss

#16. Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#17. If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

Steven Spielberg

#18. Pride is a foolish thing, but it is a powerful force.

Patrick Rothfuss

#19. With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.

Sharon Salzberg

#20. I ended up taking Ben & Jerry and the Gallo brothers home that night, so it was a real orgy, if a very maudlin and self-indulgent one.

Amelia C. Gormley

#21. Also, if a man takes pride in his disguise skills, it would be a foolish wife who would claim to recognise him: it's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.

Margaret Atwood

#22. My background in financial services and my experience as a state representative have given me the ability to identify our country's fiscal problems and find steps to remedy them.

Darlene Senger

#23. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

Milan Kundera

#24. Cherubs fan our foolish fires, filling hearts with mad desires. They prick our pride and haughtiness with quick, angelic naughtiness.

John Biccard

#25. I can play anywhere. First, third, left field, anywhere but Philadelphia.

Richie Allen

#26. Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Joseph Addison

#27. Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

Pietro Aretino

#28. Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.

Colleen Atwood

#29. The Angels don't like to be called losers, but they have learned to live with it. "Yeah, I guess I am," said one. "But you're looking at one loser who's going to make a hell of a scene on the way out.

Hunter S. Thompson

#30. To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#31. The Foolish man is one who takes pride in hate and oppression of the unfortunate. He is weak because of such behavior.

Ellen J. Barrier

#32. But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Ernest Gaines

#33. We shouldn't use God for our purpose alone but also be instruments of the extension of His Kingdom

Sunday Adelaja

#34. It's easier to create money than to spend it.

Warren Buffett