Pride Quotes - Page 46

It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

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

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.

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

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.

When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay

I'd rather save a home run than hit one. I've always been like that. Defense is what I pride myself on.

Even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. They get lucky sometimes.

If it rusts, it can never be trusted If its owner fails to control it, it will cut him Yes, pride is Like a blade.

The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is a low-level barbarian macho punk God. He boastfully claims to have created the heaven and the stars and the world, but provides no technical details or replicable blueprints. His preoccupations, whims, anxieties, jealousies, rules and hatred of women are primitive mammalian brain. His petty prides are primate.