Quotes about pride
pride happy-life men
World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents. Paramahansa Yogananda
pride people world
As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride. Paul Martin
pride thinking harm
Just think you are the greatest. Where's the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong. Meher Baba
pride envy boredom
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom. Martin Amis
pride looks flood
When pride thaws, look for floods. Philip James Bailey
pride vanity arrogance
There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride. Pope Francis
pride free-gifts care
... this task entrusted to us by God the Creator requires us to grasp the rhythm and logic of creation. But we are often driven by pride of domination, of possessions, manipulation, of exploitation; we do not "care" for it, we do not respect it, we do not consider it as a free gift that we must care for.
pride impossible truly-happy
When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy
pride hands two
You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food. Rachael Ray
pride practice generosity
Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done or thought of first? People who criticize scientists for wanting to enjoy the satisfaction of intellectual ownership are confusing possessiveness with pride of possession. Meanness, secretiveness and, sharp practice are as much despised by scientists as by other decent people in the world of ordinary everyday affairs; nor, in my experience, is generosity less common among them, or less highly esteemed. Peter Medawar
pride love-is enemy
The greatest enemy to love is your pride Pete Wilson
pride arrogance fit
Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life Paulo Coelho
pride doors dust
Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.
pride cutting winning
That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.
pride taught knows
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught. Quintilian
pride self tree
It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be. Phillips Brooks
pride self church
How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency. Pope Benedict XVI
pride flags american-flag
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. Mike Fitzpatrick
pride self water
'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet. Naveen Jain
pride billiards discouraged
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Mother Teresa
pride vanity vanity-and-pride
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. Joanna Baillie
pride men self
Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.
pride boys conceited
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
pride compassion self
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
pride grace saint
It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person. John Bunyan
pride needs given
You need to take pride in what God has given you. Joel Osteen
pride ugly faults
It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride? Joan Collins
pride companion foolishness
Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions? Linda Sue Park
pride tears four
Four tears in my face and you ain't never heard me cry/ I'm richer than all y'all, I got a bank full of pride Lil Wayne
pride men order
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty. Leo Tolstoy
pride stupidity dishonesty
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.
pride order opposites
In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty.
pride golf play
I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie. Lee Trevino