There is no greater enemy than pride.

There’s pride and then there’s stupidity.

The actors today really need the whip hand. They’re so lazy. They haven’t got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have....

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature’s unpredictable creatures.

The dark war consciousness and pride have seized upon the weak, with great cynicisms and glib, soulless intellects, that grind away like robotic gears at what they despise and can never understand.

Humility is hard when someone has things like wealth, knowledge, & recognition that may tempt him/her behave and act pridefully. Otherwise, worrying about pride without these factors that predispose you, it is just an illusion.

A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.

if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it.

It’s much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

For the believer, humility is honesty about one’s greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless about truly appearing less righteous than another.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.

The most secretive news that can make you to shake hands with great people is humility. Pride on the other way is a dream killer.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you – what a revelation.

It was crazy. We are a defensive team. We take pride in that. We just couldn’t stop them. I just never had the feeling that you can’t stop anybody.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.

The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming...

The seeking face that will not alter when presented with reason, must delight in its wearer’s prideful ignorance.

Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail.

Elaine: He saved my life twice. He’s the only grown-up I know who keeps his promises.Michael: Yes. It is a point of pride with him. But please — don’t mistake it for a virtue.

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.

•They’re like chickens who get out of the henhouse, and they’re so proud of themselves, and so puffed up from being able to eat all the worms and beetles and caterpillars they want, that they...

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

You are unmannerly,sharp-tounged, and show no respect for your betters,which is practically everyone given your lowly ravel birth.””I am Edema Ruh to my bones.That means my blood is red.It means I breathe the free air...

And metaphors like cats behind your smile,Each one wound up to purr,each one a pride,Each one a fine gold beast you’ve hid inside (…)

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

There is no greater evil than men’s failure to consult and to consider.

El orgullo la mantuvo en pie cuando el amor la traicionó.

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

The less worth of a man,the greater his pride.

Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.

For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity when looking upon it. Our body was not like the bodies of our...

My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don’t lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.

One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are...

What matters is your convictions.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Learning isn’t acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you’re self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one...

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

Leaders are not worried about the respect and honour they can be given, but the impacts and influence they can give!

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high […]

This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these lunatics to go down into their dark room and die for something that...

Eisenhower on Patton: “Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won’t with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

It is always a pride to die as an American.

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.

We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.’ – Tom Joad (Jr.)