Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.

Don’t feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is...

Pride is instilled. It’s what we carry with us every day of our lives.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

If you are a queen and I am a queen then who will fill the bucket of water?

The wretch, concentred all in self,Living, shall forfeit fair renown,And, doubly dying, shall go downTo the vile dust, from whence he sprung,Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!

Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the nature of his memory problem. It wasn’t pride that prevented him from asking for help but...

You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and...

For Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common senesce.

Sell your materials but save your morals.

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...

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.

Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.

It’s a very big game for us for many reasons. Local pride is at stake.

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn’t.

I’m proud to be a Mick, even though I’m not Irish My middle name is Mickey, though. Actually, I’m lying.

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books… When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a “label” than of being a human being, that’s the...

The privacy of pride.

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or...

Your Nationality or any other Affiliation isn’t written on your forehead or any visible part of your body. It is shown by the way you Pride Yourself.

A good wife is Royal in Heart. She is a crown to her husband, and pride to the home where she was raised. She is called a W.I.F.E because she is a Woman In Full...

Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God’s right hand.’ Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. ‘In the end pride is the only evil, the root of...

It’s interesting how pain can change a person, eh? How it makes a man abandon his pride and forsake himself.

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a...

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to find employment in the first place, take enormous pride in our hard-fought jobs...

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Ego and pride is a two headed twist.

It was amazing the things you could bring yourself to do when you felt insecure, when you were out to protect your heart. You could deny it what it wants most, just for the sake...

One of the things I pride myself on is being resilient,

…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

Although he didn’t care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is...

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.

I just believe that someday I’ll meet a person who’d describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

My heart is desperately wicked” provides no such comforts. It heads off all attempts to shift blame, and cuts down all the pretensions of spiritual pride.

It’s fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the...

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

Don’t be too full of yourself because of how people hail you. When your head is swelling, it means there is more empty space to fill in there!

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener’s innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive”.