Pride Quotes - Page 27

• You've certainly mellowed out... you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive want will destroy anyone, but those same desires are necessary to understand what it means to be human. Why did you rid yourself of them?

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Fun, Mean, Wrath

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• Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

  Saint Augustine

  Proud, Source, Contempt

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.217, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes.

  Melina Marchetta

  Apology, Keys, Age

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• I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Secret, Atheism

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.57, Basic Books

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• ONE MORE CHNCE. Words that my mother heard, more than once. Words that women debate. Whether you CAN forgive and whether you SHOULD trust. I think of all the judgment from society, friends, and family, the overwhelming consensus seeming to be that you should not grant someone who betrayed you a second chance. That you should do everything you can to keep the knife out of your back, and to protect your heart and pride. Cowards give second chances. Fools give second chances. And I am no coward, no fool.

  Emily Giffin

  Mother, Heart, Thinking

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• Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

  Stephen King

  Pants, Belts, Used

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• 1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your money before you have it. 4.Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5.Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6.We never repent of having eaten too little. 7.Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8.How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9.Take things always by their smooth handle. 10.When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Evil, Cost

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.402

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• So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Eye, Self, Important

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

  Boris Pasternak

  Farewell, Saying Goodbye, Rivers

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• The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, World, Christ

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• As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Idols, Long, Delight

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• If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Honor, Desire

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• Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

  John Green

  Knowing, Malls, Stills

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.668, Penguin

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• The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

  David O. McKay

  Religious, Stars, Kindness

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• [My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

  Arthur Koestler

  Father, Distance, Names

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• Nothing - not prestige, power or pride - is worth sacrificing the things that you truly want, the things that you truly love. "Don't be afraid to take time and smell the roses. Don't hesitate in seeking out those things you hold dear. Seeking them out and holding on to them. And don't ever cease standing up for what you believe in, and fighting for those things that you want. Life is too short. Do what makes you happy, regardless of how others might feel.

  Brenda Jackson

  Believe, Life Is Too Short, Fighting

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• If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

  John Irving

  Moral, Sin, Ifs

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• I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sarcasm, Expression, People

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• There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Passion, Joy

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.169, Bibliolis Books

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• But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fishing, Dancing, Titles

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• She loved the teachings of the Five Visions. Humility. Sacrifice. Seeing another's problems before your own. Yet she was beginning to think that she-- along with others-- had taken this belief too far, letting her desire to seem humble become a form of pride itself. She now saw that when her faith had become about clothing instead of people, it had taken a wrong turn.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Teaching, Taken, Humble

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• Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

  Anne Rice

  Heart, Parent, Soul

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• I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Flower, Men

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• The vulnerability undid him even as the strength brought him pride. And the whole of her brought him love beyond the measuring of it. Of all he'd craved in his life, all he'd dreamed of having, all he'd fought to gain by fair means or foul, he'd never imagined having such such as she as his own. Never imagined himself the man he'd come to be because she was.

  Nora Roberts

  Mean, Men, Gains

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• We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Intelligent, Peaceful, May

  Chogyam Trungpa (2005). “The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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