Wounded Pride Quotes

#1. Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

Oswald Chambers

#2. All too often cowardice wears the habit of wounded pride.' Anomander

Steven Erikson

#3. Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

Stendhal

#4. Wherever a tension needed the solvent of good-will, or friction the oil of benevolence; wherever suspicion needed the antidote of frankness, or wounded pride the disinfectant of a hearty laugh - there Taft was sent.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#5. Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

Helen Van Slyke

#6. A man's wounded pride is a violate force.

Jean Haus

#7. Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

Jacques Barzun

#8. 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

#9. The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

George Santayana

#10. The immediate reactions of the two superpower leaders when confronted with the gravest international crisis of their careers were much the same, shock, wounded pride, grim determination, and barely repressed fear.

Michael Dobbs

#11. It was his wounded pride that made him ill.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. I was really happy with it, if I'm honest. I've been kicked out of a few parties, but it's fun when you get kicked out. Being told to leave is great. 'Get out you're too pissed', 'Wicked'.

Lee Ryan

#14. The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud.

Robert Blair

#15. Where is the pain when your pride is wounded? And why do we say that: wounded? There is no gash, no blood, not even a scratch. Which part of us hurts? The brain cells? The neurons? What, for goodness' sake, what?

A.P.

#16. In a world where no one listens, where no one seems to care, where hatred is greater than love, where hearts are hardened by vengeance and pride, where violence is preferable to peace, what else is there for him to do but heal the wounded, and bury the dead, in a war that could go on forever?

Ben Okri

#17. 'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.

Henry Rollins

#18. Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

A.J. Darkholme

#19. I love Motown, that whole era. Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson. I just put on Pandora, and put it on Motown, and it makes me smile; makes me smile so much.

Tika Sumpter

#20. Marty knew about rituals. "That means we're supposed to do something a certain way so we won't feel guilty," he said. "You got it," Harry said. Marty

Greg Bear

#21. Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying 'I love you' with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

Jascha Heifetz

#23. To forgive, there must have been a wound; and to be wounded, there must have been the gatherings of pride. There is no generosity of heart as long as there is a referential memory, the "me" and the "mine.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#24. To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.

Nathanael Greene

#25. Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact.

Philipp Meyer

#27. He can't always watch us directly, ... with his fullest attention every minute, but He's always at least watching from the corner of his eye.

Dean Koontz