Pride Quotes - Page 29

• I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?

  Jack Kerouac

  Soul, Looks, Body

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.219, Penguin

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• You must never call your enemy by a name you choose for him." “Instead you must call him by the name he calls himself. What he chooses will reflect his pride; it will reveal his desires. But what you choose to call him will reveal your fears, which should be kept to yourself, lest your enemy find the way to exploit them.

  Cameron Dokey

  Names, Enemy, Desire

  Cameron Dokey (2010). “Wild Orchid: A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan"”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Mind, Weakness

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (1999). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.95, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).

  Nhat Hanh

  Thinking, Three, Kind

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.189, Harmony

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• There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

  Terry Goodkind

  Shoes, People, Doubt

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Faith of the Fallen”, p.522, Macmillan

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• I thought that what I felt for you was right," Luce said. "I loved you until it hurt me, until our love was consumed by your pride and rage. The thing you called love made me disappear. So I had to stop loving." She Paused. "Our adoration never diminished the Throne, but your love diminished me. I never meant to hurt you. I only meant to stop you from hurting me.

  Lauren Kate

  Hurt, Thrones, Our Love

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• Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

  George Lucas

  Letting Go, Sometimes, Episodes

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• Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Thinking, Annabeth

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.173, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Passion, Eye

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1810, Delphi Classics

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• Aphros nodded, a glint of pride in his eyes. “We have trained all the famous mer-heroes! Name a famous mer-hero, and we have trained him or her!” “Oh, sure,” Leo said. “Like…um, the Little Mermaid?” Aphros frowned. “Who? No! Like Triton, Glaucus, Weissmuller, and Bill!” “Oh. ”Leo had no idea who any of those people were. “You trained Bill? Impressive.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Eye, Names

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• Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.

  Ann Aguirre

  Revenge, Kindness, Promise

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Luxury, Knowing, Legs

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• Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

  Alexander Pope

  Fall, Errors, Female

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.41, BookCaps Study Guides

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• One step, two...three...Soon she was in front of Aeron, smiling at her success. "What was that?" he asked. "Walking." "Took you so long, I'm officially fifty years older." She raised her chin, pride undiminished. "Well, I didn't fall.

  Gena Showalter

  Fall, Years, Two

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Passion”, p.93, HQN Books

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• I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Skeletons, Personality

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• I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

  Fiona Apple

  Running, Sea, Fool

  Song: Sleep To Dream, Album: Tidal, 1996

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• Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Leaving, Weakness

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• She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

  David Nicholls

  Two Sides, Issues, Argument

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• Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely. Let them spend their strength in furious attacks, whilst you conserve your own. Wait and watch, girl, wait and watch.

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Men, Waiting

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• Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.

  Edmond Rostand

  Love You, World, Bitterness

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• You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sea, Alive, Sin

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.31, Hamilton Books

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• For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Real, Looks, Trouble

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faeries are fallen angels," said Dorothea, "cast down out of heaven for their pride." "That's the legend," Jace said. "It's also said that they're the offspring of demons and angels, which always seemed more likely to me. Good and evil, mixing together. Faeries are as beautiful as angels are supposed to be, but they have a lot of mischief and cruelty in them. And you'll notice most of them avoid midday sunlight—" "For the devil has no power," said Dorothea softly, as if she were reciting an old rhyme, "except in the dark.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Angel, Dark

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

  Alison Goodman

  Men, Feet, Failing

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• For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Spiritual, Erosion, Long

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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