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If you want to protect your pride, you don't need people to like you!
— Wataru Watari, やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている 1
Your obsession with being in control of your mind makes you so stiff all the times; that is why our egos are growing, and our sense of humor is shrinking.
— Jasz  Gill
Dignity and pride are not only two different feelings, but, in some ways, opposites.You can step on your pride to preserve your dignity. You can destroy your dignity because of your pride.
— Luigina Sgarro
Although pride and obsession can feel like love, I guess.
— Meg Howrey
Genealogy was her favorite insanity.
— Trollope Anthony 1815-1882
. . . I will not be sworn, but love may trans-form me to an oyster, but, I’ll take my oath on it, till hehave made an oyster of me, he shall never make me sucha fool.
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Pride is a good horse if thou ridest wisely
— H. Rider Haggard, Eric Brighteyes
Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Ambiades, I realized, was the kind of person who liked to put people in a hierarchy, and he wanted me to understand that I was at the bottom of his. He was supposed to treat me politely in spite of my subservient position, and I was supposed to be grateful.For my part, I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one. I might bow to the superior force of the magus and Pol, but I wasn't going to bow to him. Neither of us moved.
— Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief
If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as 'progress', and assert with pride and conviction that they are 'Christians' and that they are doing 'God's will'.
— Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency
At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You are strong, tempered like steel in the fire and by the blows of the hammer of life. Nothing will break you again, only make you stronger and more whole. Perfection is the pride of those who have not lived, who know not these things in their arrogance. They remain the same - raw and without form. The hammer never touches them, and they lie on the shelf, gathering dust, slowly tarnishing and fading and crumbling. the blows of the hammer in the fire refine us into bright shining glory for the roles we play in life - until we are one with the anvil, becoming immune to the hammer's little knocks, and smile at it.
— Christina Engela, Demonspawn
It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. Pride is a quality often on their lips, but not apparent in their actions.
— Agatha Christie, Towards Zero
And my chest swells with an emotion I'm not familiar with . . . happiness? Pride? I'm not sure what it is, but I suddenly feel compelled to do things that will make me feel this way all the time, which gives me pause, since that seems dangerous too.
— Kelly Thompson, The Girl Who Would Be King
...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.
— Agatha Christie, Murder in the Mews
I know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come very cheap indeed.
— Michelle Franklin
Proud people have a mirror, the objects in that mirror is rebellion, A wise advice is often seen by them as controlling, Let them be.
— Oluseyi Akinbami
Be wary of the praise of men
—  don't let it pump you up unnecessarily and don't let it paralyze your progress
While many people are proud of being self-made, it only explains all the flaws.
— Ron Brackin
There may not be an emotion more complex than the dual stations of pride. The positive connation of pride – the telluric current resulting from both natural causes and interactions of human beings – flows from the conception of applying a person’s best effort to accomplish worthwhile tasks. The negative connotation of pride refers to an inflated sense of one’s personal status or accomplishments.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying.
— Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
But the arrogance of old age can cloak itself in the authority of past accomplishments, which can serve to confirm the belief that one’s arrogance is justly held. It can shield a man from the realization that his beliefs have calcified, that he can no longer assess a situation accurately at first glance, that the world has changed around him and left him behind. Guarded from this knowledge, he remains content.
— Dexter Palmer, Version Control
To declare myself as a genius immediately evidences that I am not.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I was not born to wait.
— Gwenda Bond, Double Down
It's always wrong to hate but it's never wrong to love.
— Lady Gaga
If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Warlord of Mars
They who shared none of my defeats should take no pride in celebrating my successes.
— Adhish Mazumder
Go ragged then, but pride makes a poor covers; once one man laughs you're naked.
— Geraldine Harris
Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.
— Gwenda Bond, Double Down
Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
...my pride in Joachim Mahlke was as sweet as chocolate creams.
— Günter Grass, Cat and Mouse
If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?
— Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender
Pride ill becomes a beggar, ser.
— George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Warlord of Mars
The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to the most ernest disciple but Christ says to us then what He said to His disciples long ago, when many of them had given u pin disgust, "Do you also want to leave me?" If we answer as PEter did, "Lord to whom else shall we go? Your words are words of eternal life," our rebel thoughts are captured once more. The way of holiness is again visible.
— Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender
I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea.
— James     Baldwin
Pride is all about selfishness. Valuing and preferring ourselves, our agendas, our perspectives over anything or anyone else. Pride is easily o ended (“How dare he say that!”). Pride is easily irritated (“ at’s not what I said!”). Pride is easily embittered (“I am never speaking to her again!”). Pride has no problem breaking up relationship based on misunderstanding.
— Robert Hotchkin
No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth...
— Isaac Asimov, The Currents of Space
Pride could be painful sometimes. And right now, hers was suffocating
— Calia Read, Every Which Way
Self importance is pride of a soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they could take pride in, possess, value, as one would a family heirloom.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Jovan: "I'll pass any test you present me. I assure you."Eviona: "I wonder what the best test of pride would be." :)
— Eve S. Nicholson, The Tripartite Soul
So she prayed, Lord, give me patience. She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it....it cost her tears to think that her situation might actually be that desolate, so she prayed again for patience, for tact, for understanding--for every virtue that might keep her safe from conflicts that would be sure to leave her wounded, every virtue that might at least help her to preserve an appearance of dignity, for heaven's sake.
— Marilynne Robinson, Home
Amy Carmichael once said, "Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.
— Alexander Strauch, Leading with Love
As we neared the watering hole, I saw lions sprawled at the base of the acacia tree, relaxing in the shade. Many, many lions. If a group of lions is normally called a pride, then this was, at the very least, an overconfidence. Possibly an arrogance.
— Dixie Lyle, To Die Fur
The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
If outrage were a sign of godliness, then the devil would be the godliest soul in Creation.
— Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest
Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.
— Beth Moore, To Live Is Christ
Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind. Our degree of pride determines how we treat our God and our brothers and sisters. Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?
— Ezra Taft Benson
I wished to test your love for me, and it did not bear the test. You used to tell me that you drew the very breath of life but for me and love of me." "And to prove that love, you demanded that I should forfeit mine honor," he said..."that I should accept without murmur of question, as a dumb and submissive slave, every action of my mistress. My hear overflowing with love and passion, I asked for no explanation-I waited for one, not doubting, only hoping.
— Emmuska Orczy
Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan
The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) They pit their perceptions of truth against God’s great knowledge, their abilities versus God’s priesthood power, and their accomplishments against His mighty works.
— Ezra Taft Benson
You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
His pride and her beauty had been in direct conflict, and his pride had remained the conqueror.
— Emmuska Orczy
If we was master, then we could help ourselves.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Be careful with your gift. It can lead to your success or your destruction.
— Eric Christopher Jackson
For when a woman resists an unwelcome passion, she is obeying to the full the law of her sex; the initial gesture of refusal is, so to speak, a primordial instinct in every female, and even if she rejects the most ardent passion she cannot be called inhuman. But how disastrous it is when fate upsets the balance, when a woman so far overcomes her natural modesty as to disclose her passion to a man, when, without the certainty of its being reciprocated, she offers her love, and he, the wooed, remains cold and on the defensive! An insoluble tangle this, always; for not to return a woman's love is to shatter her pride, to violate her modesty. The man who rejects a woman's advances is bound to wound her in her noblest feelings. In vain, then, all the tenderness with which he extricates himself, useless all his polite, evasive phrases, insulting all his offers of mere friendship, once she has revealed her weakness! His resistance inevitably becomes cruelty, and in rejecting a woman's love he takes a load of guild upon his conscience, guiltless though he may be. Abominable fetters that can never be cast off!
— Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity
Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives
— Iain S. Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
I pretend to reach for them, but before he can guess my intentions, I catch one of his wings instead. He flutters, trying to break loose, his one free wing batting my hand.I draw out the decanter and stuff him into it, careful to fold his wings. I don’t want to hurt him. I just want to better him.Once he’s settled inside, I shove a paper towel into the bottle’s neck. No need to worry that he’ll smother. After all, he spent that night in a bug trap last year and sur
— A.G. Howard, Unhinged
Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.
— George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric
Be broken and pride will have no vessel.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
Human beings are consistent with regard to codes of honor, but endlessly fickle with regard to whom those codes apply. E.N. Wilson
— Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back
However strange it may well seem, to do one's duty will make any one conceited who only does it sometimes. Those who do it always would as soon think of being conceited of eating their dinner as of doing their duty. 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
He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Most moms and dads think they are either the best or the worst parents in the world. Both are wrong.
— Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
The kind of submission or resignation that he showed, was that of a man who was tired out. I sometimes derived an impression, from his manner or from a whispered word or two which escaped him, that he pondered over the question whether he might have a better man under better circumstances. But he never justified himself by a hint tending that way, or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.It happened on two or three occasions in my presence, that his desperate reputation was alluded to by one or other of the people in attendance on him. A smile crossed his face then, and he turned his eyes on me with a trustful look, as if he were confident that I had seen some small redeeming touch in him, even so long ago as when I was a little child. As to all the rest, he was humble and contrite, and I never knew him complain.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul".
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.
— Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel nothing but sorrow and shame at your presence.
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.
— Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
There is no more prideful creature than a man born poor.
— Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe
One of the thousand objections to the sin of pride lies precisely in this, that self-consciousness of necessity destroys sel-revelation. A man who thinks a great deal about himself will try to be many-sided, attempt a theatrical excellence at all points, will try to be an encyclopedia of culture, and his own real personality will be lost in that false universalism.
— G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.
— H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
If two people could make each other smile and laugh and forget all the pain and darkness in the world for a moment, why should we feel ashamed of it?
— Leah Raeder, Cam Girl
when you get to the peak, remember the valley exists
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.
— Nicholas Kristof
Be on your guard against the Pride that repels advice, resents reproof, and refuses to own a fault.
— A.L.O.E., The Haunted Room: A Tale
Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...
— Jane Austen
Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you can go.
— Pravinee Hurbungs
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
— Claude Bernard
Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
Pride is a hard thing to let go but is it really worth your all
— Joyce Guo
The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.
— Stephen L. Carter, The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is over our heads if we hold them high enough.
— Johnny Rich
Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time.
— Terry Pratchett
When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.
— Julia Quinn, The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy
I have learned to have pride in what I do.
— Harley King
It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.
— Manasa Rao
A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center.
— Joseph Bottum
IF I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against Pride. The more I see of existence, and especially of modern practical and experimental existence, the more I am convinced of the reality of the old religious thesis; that all evil began with some attempt at superiority; some moment when, as we might say, the very skies were cracked across like a mirror, because there was a sneer in Heaven.
— G.K. Chesterton
... there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven't lived up to their potential. They feel unworthy. They want to hide and disappear, to fade into the background and nurse their own hurts. We don't associate them with pride, but they are still, at root, suffering from the same disease. They are still yoking happiness to accomplishment; it's just that they are giving themselves a D- rather than an A+. They tend to be just as solipsistic, and in their own way as self-centered, only in a self-pitying and isolating way rather than in an assertive and bragging way.
— David  Brooks, The Road to Character
The marine corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swabjockies, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because those candyasses don't know how to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not, he will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. The artist must be like that marine: he has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier, or swabbie, or desk jockey, because this is war, baby, and war is hell.
— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Turn your pride into love in order to fill your life with joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Self Importance is the worst sin a person can get into
— Rajesh Nanoo
It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.
— Graham Greene, The Quiet American
How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.
— Tom Clancy, Executive Orders
If a person starts neglecting the blessings of God and takes all God has given him as his own, then pride is inevitable
— Sunday Adelaja
Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.
— Mark Batterson, A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime
He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock.
— Flannery O'Connor
Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great
—  your country becomes great because of your pride in it.
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.
— Raheel Farooq
Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
You're seeing yourself as having missed the target already. That's your fear. That's hurting you. But then you got yourself seeing all your shots being bulls eyes. That's your confidence. It's making you cocky. It's making you think you're infallible. See? That's hurting you too. Don't think of yourself as already defeated. Don't think of yourself as already won. Just concentrate on what you're doing. Think about now.
— Ben Willoughby, Gods on the Mountain
In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we seek to do is assert how well things are going for us, just as friendship has a chance to grow only when we fare to share what we are afraid of and regret. The rest is merely showmanship. The flaws whose exposure we so dread, the indiscretions we know we would be mocked for, the secrets that keep our conversations with our so-called friends superficial and inert—all of these emerge as simply part of the human condition.
— Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
qYour pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great
—  your country becomes great because of your pride in it.
Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.
— Terry Pratchett
And this man, who had sailed round Europe and navigated the Great Northern Route, leaned happily over half a ladleful of thin oatmeal kasha, cooked entirely without fat - just oats and water.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.
— Terry Pratchett
The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.
— Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way
if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it.
— David Brooks
In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:
— David Brooks
The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?
— Ben Willoughby, Gods on the Mountain
When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time.
— RSCruz
I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me
— Marie Lu, Champion
God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.
— Mansur al-Hallaj, The Great Satan "Eblis"
i found god in myself& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely
— Ntozake Shange
It's interesting how pain can change a person, eh? How it makes a man abandon his pride and forsake himself.
— Kichiku Neko
Let us thank God for valour in abstractionFor those who go their own way, will not kissThe arse of law and order nor compoundFor physical comfort at the price of pride
— Louis MacNeice
they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of irritation they are able to cause greater personalities than themselves
— Don Marquis
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 the form? How long, indeed, how long?Alas for that eye that's blind and bruised! Within it the sun seemed like an atomOf an Adam who had no like. He saw nothing but a lump of
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Great Satan "Eblis"
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.
— Alexander Zalan
•	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 never think about foxes.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
She was a Seeker now, marked for life.She had thought this brand would be an eblem of pride, but now it meant something entirely different. She was damned.
— Arwen Elys Dayton, Seeker
It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy
I always apologized for my home to protect myself so people wouldn't think I was a slob, or at least so they would know that I acknowledge I can be a slob and that I'm not okay with it and that really I have much higher standards. . . . When I apologize for my home, I'm declaring to all within earshot that I'm not content. That I'm silently keeping score.
— Myquillyn Smith
His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.
— Joseph J. Ellis, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Their message is conveyed in that hortatory tone and declamatory voice used by politicians when starting a condition contrary to fact. People who aren't cowed don't spend a lot of time proclaiming they won't be cowed. Leaders who really have strengthened the voice of freedom don't don't need to reassure there electorates that they're committed to doing so.
— William Kristol
In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.
— Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.
— Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.
— Jonathan V. Last
We don't need to pray to prove that we're properly pious or really serious. Instead, we pray because we are completely assured, and because the Father hears our prayers because they come to Him through the lips of His dear Son.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.
— Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.
— Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
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 contempt.
— John C. Wright, Awake in the Night
The word bisexual had stood out so bright and clear in my head that all else had ceased to exist. Bisexual. I had a word. I understood; it was me… a nice clear label that said it all. I didn't have to choose. I didn’t have to be not attracted to either guys or girls — a prospect I had found utterly absurd and likely impossible, but had thought was perhaps necessary. Now it wasn’t necessary. Now it was okay to be me. I was not unheard of. Bisexual.
— Harrie Farrow, Love, Sex, and Understanding the Universe
The amazing ones are, those that don't know it!
— Anthony Liccione
Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
— Herman Melville
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.
— Augustine of Hippo, City of God
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall In company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small, things priceless and worthless. A first water diamond, an empty spool bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. in your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held so much like the jumble in the bags could they be emptied that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place, who knows?
— Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels To Be Colored Me
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
— Alexander Pope
Deep rooted envy is the main cause why people put you down, blame, shame, misjudge, maltreat and malign you; abusing your goodness and generosity." from the book, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul
— Angelica Hopes
Some people only go to church for the social life. They like having all the friends in church or getting the praises of men by doing certain things, but they don’t go there to actually worship God. They go there so others can worship THEM instead.
— Lisa Bedrick, On the Charismatic Movement
Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most relevant passages of Scripture may not be those that rebut particular manifestations of sin, but those that remind us to love God with all our hearts.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.
— Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What
There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.
— Robin Hobb, Golden Fool
Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).
— C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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.
— Joan Ambu
In many ways, the steamships of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries had become the secular equivalent of medieval cathedrals. They were the source of endless pride to the communities and nations that built them, and were just as much an expression of men's hopes and dreams of technical perfection as the great churches had once been of hopes for spiritual purity.
— Daniel Allen Butler, Unsinkable: The Full Story Of The RMS Titanic
When a man's pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult.
— James Clavell, Shogun, Part 1
Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing-the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness. . . . The male you could have escaped, for it exists only on the biological level. But the masculine none of us can escape. What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it.
— C.S. Lewis
Pride begins when someone starts to assume that s/he is the custodian of all truths and attempts to be right in all circumstances, which is IMPOSSIBLE!
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Without discursive thought it is just dharma practice. Hope together with aim obscures. One does not cut through pride by meditatively cultivating the desire for happiness. If there is hope, even the hope for buddhas, it is a negative force. If there is apprehension, even apprehension about hells, it is a negative force.
— Machik Labdrön, Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition
I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
She pulled her lips away again. "Wait!"He stopped and stared at her."I'm relatively positive we're not supposed to be doing this.""Who says?""The laws of nature and God.""Laws are made to be broken and God just wants us to be happy." Fucking this woman would make him so damn happy. "Come on. Let's go break some laws.
— Shelly Laurenston, The Mane Event
Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don't find the consolation they want in spiritual things. Many never have enough of hearing counsels, or learning spiritual maxims, or keeping them and reading books about them. They spend more time in these than in striving after mortification and the perfection of the interior poverty to which they are obliged.
— San Juan de la Cruz, Dark Night of the Soul
Ronnie snarled and Brendon roared back.Her eyes narrowed. "You roared at me?""And I'll do it again if you can't keep your paws off my Oreos.
— Shelly Laurenston, The Mane Event
A dwarf will fight for honor, but a man will kill for pride.”Auron thought for a moment. “What’s the difference?”“Honor is how others see you. Pride is how you see yourself.
— E.E. Knight, Dragon Champion
But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that?
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
He leaned down to her ear and purred. Damn but she loved when he purred.
— Shelly Laurenston, The Mane Event
Yes. I appreciate the helpful and long spreadsheet with all the many places you can't go.
— Shelly Laurenston, The Mane Event
Yet Anthony knew that there were days when they hurt each other purposely—taking almost a delight in the thrust. Incessantly she puzzled him: one hour so intimate and charming, striving desperately toward an unguessed, transcendent union; the next, silent and cold, apparently unmoved by any consideration of their love or anything he could say. Often he would eventually trace these portentous reticences to some physical discomfort—of these she never complained until they were over—or to some carelessness or presumption in him, or to an unsatisfactory dish at dinner, but even then the means by which she created the infinite distances she spread about herself were a mystery, buried somewhere back in those twenty-two years of unwavering pride.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Murph took his shot and dropped the bastard right out of the tree. then he stood. "I'm an American soldier, you son of a bitch.
— Dana Marton, Deathwatch
Many pride themselves, staking claim to the noble virtue that is loyalty. However, many resolve to give their allegiance to nothing. How can one demand loyalty, if one stands by nothing, nor commits to the realization of an ideal?
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
If he didn't have Ronnie already in his arms he'd have assumed she'd just opened the door...and aged a few years. Wow, he thought in surprise, she's going to be hot when we hit fifty.
— Shelly Laurenston, The Mane Event
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986
— Neal A Maxwell
Damn tricky cats!
— Shelly Laurenston, The Mane Event
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.
— Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honour. It is human at least, if not divine.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A splinter of pride got in under my breast-bone and lodged there.
— Lia Mills, Fallen
There's pride and then there's stupidity.
— Robert Galbraith
The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry.
— Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Healer
All right, shadow-priest, you've been spying — on what? What state secrets have you learned watching me groom these horses?''Only that they hate you, Daru. Every time your back was turned, they got ready to nip you — only you always seemed to step away at precisely the right moment-''Yes, I did, since I knew what they were intending. Each time.''Is this pride I hear? That you outwitted two horses?
— Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice
Shy, what is it? I say it is intrigued by pride and hesitated by a feeling of being unworthy.
— ferrrer joey palomar fesico
Our people once were warriors. But unlike you, Jake, they were people with mana, pride; people with spirit. If my spirit can survive living with you for eighteen years, then I can survive anything.
— Alan Duff, Once Were Warriors
When you swallow that pride, Eve, take care you don't choke on it.
— Nora Roberts
Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.
— Jason Whitlock
Pride is never so loud as when in chains.
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Charles Wallace, the danger here is greatest for you." "Why?""Because of what you are. Just exactly because of what you are you will be by far the most vulnerable. You must stay with Meg and Calvin. You must not go off on your own. Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Pride is a very dangerous disease that can turn your talent, asset, and achievements into a handicap.
— Uzoma Nnadi
He's not wanting to fight," she assured the captain."He is driven by curiosity?" Deudermont asked."By loyalty," Catti-brie answered. "And nothing more. Drizzt is bound by friendship to ye and to the crew, and if a simple contest against the man will make for an easier sail, then he's up to the fight. But there is no curiosity in Drizzt. No stupid pride. He's not for caring who's the better at swordplay."Deudermont nodded and his expression brightened. The young woman's words confirmed his belief in his friend.
— R.A. Salvatore, Passage to Dawn
To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work, even knowledge and light may be ill pursued. Knowledge is good, and light is good: yet man perished in seeking knowledge, and moths perish in seeking light; and if we, who are crushed before the moth, will not accept such mystery as is needful to us, we shall perish in like manner.
— John Ruskin
Risk should be taken for a cause not pleasure, life is not worth to ruin but to live with pride.
— Zeeshan Ahmed
If you are a queen and I am a queen then who will fill the bucket of water?
— Wise saying
The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people.
— Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer
Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.
— Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
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 me when compared to their welfare.
— Karen Essex, Stealing Athena
Confession is not all about telling your bad deeds to the public, but being proud of the bad things you have done so far.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
Druids were supposed to be forces of preservation, not destruction, and I could not dance around the fact that my stupid pride had turned me into a misbegotten cockwaffle.
— Kevin Hearne, Tricked
Pride is the luxury of the strong".
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!
— Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated
— Jocelyn  Murray
I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.
— Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.
— Brom, Krampus: The Yule Lord
...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.
— John Piper, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian
It’s not about Al,” I snap. “It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now seeshurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyonecalls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will remember your name? It’s…Ican’t…
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
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 walk where my feet take me.I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title.That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines"-Kvothe
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
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 unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.
— Nikola Tesla
His ability to evoke Celtic pride was incredible. He would always talk about how all the old players called him up after an embarrasing performance and wanted to disassociate themselves from the Celtics. They wanted to mail in their championship rings, wanted their numbers removed from the rafters, and by this point there would be tears rolling down our cheeks and we'd want to kill.
— Bill Walton
In a sermon entitled “God’s Providence,” C. H. Spurgeon said, “Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. ‘Ah,’ said Napoleon, ‘but I propose and dispose too.’ How do you think he proposed and disposed? He proposed to go and take Russia; he proposed to make all Europe his. He proposed to destroy that power, and how did he come back again? How had he disposed it? He came back solitary and alone, his mighty army perished and wasted, having well-nigh eaten and devoured one another through hunger. Man proposes and God disposes.
— Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts
When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they form a powerful inducement toward the ultimate form of pride, namely, atheism. The safest way to stay supreme in our own estimation is to deny anything above us. This is why the proud preoccupy themselves with looking down on others. A proud man is always looking down on things and people and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. But to preserve pride it may be simpler to proclaim that there is nothing above to look at (Psalm 10:4). Ultimately, the proud must persuade themselves that there is no God.
— John Piper, Future Grace
Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?
— Red Auerbach
When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.
— Charles Williams, Descent into Hell
The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love the pride of my adversaries, of my servants, and my lover; and my house shall be, in all humility, in the wilderness a civilized place.
— Karen Blixen, Out of Africa
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.
— Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas