This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.

They have no achievements of their own. They’ve made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did...

I have brought peace to this land, and security,” he began.”And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand...

For dinner I had seared sneer with a glaze of distant gaze, and a side of mashed pride covered in grace.

Deception sneaks in through the window of pride.

It ain’t bragging if you’ve done it. There’s nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it’s absolutely essential.[check for wording] Proper...

I have more concern for my nephew’s welfare than for Lannister pride.

He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto …

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...

Swallow your pride occasionally, it’s not fattening.

be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive,” thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs’, and walked in the direction of his brother’s lodgings. “And I don’t get on with other people. Pride,...

I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn’t do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We owe the ancestors that. So many of the souls who...

When you’re thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

Whatever you don’t turn into praise turns into pride.

Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.

You have seen what Eblis the accursed has seen, when he said “I am of fire, while Adam is of clay.”Cover up the Eblis-like eye for just a moment; how long will you see just...

If you can cope the pride when winning,then you can confront despair when lose.

Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,That long to give themselves for wage,To shake their wicked sides at youthRestraining reckless middle age?

It is a defeat of the spirit to learn one’s arrogance causes such loss and pain. Pride invites you to soar to heights and the footing, tentative. farther, then, is the fall.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.

If I weren’t too proud, I’d boast of my exaggerated opinion of myself.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once...

On the Path of the Wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduction more subtle than Spiritual Pride; it strikes, being solar, at the very heart of the Aspirant;...

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into...

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one’s pride in proving oneself right with one’s zeal for finding the truth.

Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.

Fits of anger, vexation,and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset at seeing that it is imperfect.

For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride. That was why Karna waited for me to plead with him though he could have stopped my suffering with a single world. That...

Lunatics! Vain creatures! They don’t believe in God, they don’t believe in Christ! Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you’ll end up by eating one another, that’s what I prophesy.

I’m very proud of my body of work. You should see it naked sometime.

Cherubs fan our foolish fires, filling hearts with mad desires. They prick our pride and haughtiness with quick, angelic naughtiness.

From what I can see, too many kids don’t learn pride in their country anymore.

It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.

I love you, Josie, and I am devoted to making your life full of happiness and accomplishments, ensuring that you thrive to your fullest potential and that while you reach for the sky, you remain...

We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

He did not smile. ‘We are the keepers of the world’s greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?’ “My children are my greatest treasures,’ she said. ‘Stone no matter how old, means nothing to...

Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

Has he written to you?”He writes frequently.”Shew me his letters this instant, I order you’; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.

Damn tricky cats!

It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to...

Pride is a human nature and it’s good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything is not healthy. Humble is pride exhibited through humility, so be humble and...

There’s blood pounding through the Duke’s head.Knighthood is glory, he’s thinking, not just grace in the saddle and at swordplay, but courage enough to give your life to defend what you hold dear. A noble...