Top 27 Quotes About Selfish Pride
#1. I have a sickness doctors can't cure,
Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction,
Consented to be a sacrifice, killed for her love,
Eager, like the drunk gulping wine mixed with poison,
Shameless were those my nights,
Yet my soul loved them beyond all passion.
Ibn Hazm
#2. In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.
Matthew Kelly
#3. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
#4. Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#5. Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity.
Alexandre Dumas
#6. You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.
Criss Jami
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.
Bryan Cranston
#10. Being Proud is Pleasing Your Weakness.
Not Strength.
It is Selfish.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Jos de Vries
September 11, 2016
Petra Hermans
#11. At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#12. Battered and bruised but still fighting for dominance his was not the selfish petty pride that made bullies of lesser men but rather the quiet
determined dignity that turned men into heroes and made heroes crawl back to their feet from the bitter dust of defeat and stand tall once more.
C.L. Wilson
#13. We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.
C.J. Mahaney
#14. In the final analysis our greatest problem with holiness is not that our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our hearts are rebellious. We are selfish , that's our problem. And the fact that we often won't admit our selfishness shows how deep the pride goes.
Floyd McClung
#16. Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
#17. Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#18. At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#19. Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.
Criss Jami
#21. Arie, would you like to interview me? I think you'd be good at it."
"After centuries of living there are two things I do well - fighting and fucking.
A.C. James
#22. The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.
Imre Kertesz
#23. To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#24. 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
#25. You proudly said. We are Humans! In reality, we are a bunch of sarcastic, selfish and stupid well-intentioned creatures without any remorse for anything. So, think again about your pride and become, at least, more humble.
J.B.Alves
#26. When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
Criss Jami
#27. Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but to help the improvident, drinking class is clear generosity, so that the donor has a right to be warmed by a selfish pride and count on a most flattering obituary.
George Ade
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