Pride Quotes - Page 24

• silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

  Arthur Machen

  Silence, Weakness, Decency

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• The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Church, May

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Strength, Wise, Strong

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• Ria snorted. “Leo’s pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they supposed to mate? The zebras?

  Lora Leigh

  Zebras, Mates

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• Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

  Jane Austen

  Loss, Laughing, Feelings

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.231, BookBaby

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• This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race. (13th February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Religious, War

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• What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

  George MacDonald

  Boys, Conceited, Breathing

  George Macdonald (2012). “The Lost Princess: A Double Tale”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• If it rusts, it can never be trusted
  If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him
  Yes, pride is
  Like a blade.

  Tite Kubo

  Cutting, Bleach, Rust

  "Bleach". Manga Series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001–August 22, 2016.

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• How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

  George Eliot

  Christian, People, Petty

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.34, Penguin

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• My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

  Tana French

  Father, Men, Important

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• I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Home, Humility

  Douglas MacArthur's farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress, www.americanrhetoric.com. April 19, 1951.

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• He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Heart, Self, Two

  Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”

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• We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Compassion, Self, Empathy

  Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The White Witch”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ignorance, Men, Luxury

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.37, Penguin

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• Willa’s big blue eyes, Willa’s dimpled-cheeked smile. Tiffin’s shaggy blond mane, Tiffin’s cheeky grin. Kit’s yells of excitement, Kit’s glow of pride. Maya’s face, Maya’s kisses, Maya’s love. Maya, Maya, Maya . . .

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Eye, Kissing, Blue

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• Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

  Caroline Knapp

  Integrity, Passivity Is, Drug

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.261, Dial Press

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• There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

  Terry Pratchett

  Safety, Treated, Died

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• She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

  David Foster Wallace

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• The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

  Jack Weatherford

  Anger, Keys, Self

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• Love Is Stronger Than Pride

  Marquis de Sade

  Love, Romantic, Stronger

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• You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Gratitude, Writing, Heart

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• That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.

  William Faulkner

  Children, Motherhood, Trying

  William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”

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• 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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• Every good soldier wants to live in an organized environment, secure in the knowledge that he or she will not be threatened or harassed by others, confident that his or her efforts will be recognized, and aware that the nonproductive soldier will be invited to leave. In such an environment, soldiers will be proud of their units and will demonstrate that pride with their performance and behavior.

  William A. Connelly

  Army, Effort, Soldier

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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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