Useless Pride Quotes

#1. It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

John Ruskin

#2. I was returning with myself whole and unbroken - limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance

Amy Tan

#3. I think General Pershing was the most military figure I've ever seen.

Frank Buckles

#4. I had no idea who I was. Neither did I know that I was living inside the world of dreams and illusions

Susanna Eun

#5. Auntie Wu took special pride in two of her accomplishments--the sons she bore and the flowers she grew. They were equally useless, but the flowers smelled better.

Kay Honeyman

#6. High-tech employers recognize that we will only be as successful as the employees that we attract. When it comes to transportation, environmental, housing and land use decisions, we don't view investments as tax and spend, but rather as invest and prosper.

Carl Guardino

#7. What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

Terence McKenna

#8. Mastery lies on an infinite continuum, and as a result we will never reach the end. We can, however, see to it that we are as far along that continuum as our circumstance allows.

Chris Matakas

#9. Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

Howard Fast

#10. Let yesterday be a map that guides your steps today, and tomorrow." "The

Lucian Bane

#11. I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance I had carried around like my portable vanity with its broken mirror.

Amy Tan

#12. Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Jane Austen

#13. You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.

Brian Weiss

#14. There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

Maya Angelou

#15. Knowledge gained is as useless as pride
if filed away and never applied.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. Not only is history useless, but the historian should take pride in its uselessness.

James C. Malin

#17. Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.

Michelangelo

#18. Life really is a most whimsical thing. While we consistently try and chart its route, it goes ahead and takes its own turn. Just follow the paths it lays out before you. And you may find, at some sudden turn, a miracle waiting just for you.

Jyoti Arora

#19. To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.

Samuel Johnson

#20. People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.

D.R. Silva