pride

1.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

- Johnson

2.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

3.

Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.

- Proverb

4.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

- Benjamin Franklin

5.

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men. Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

- Moodie, Susanna

6.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

- Hubbard, Elbert

7.

Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

- Frederick Saunders

8.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

- Wil Wheaton

9.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

10.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

- Mann, Horace

11.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

- Pascal, Blaise

12.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

- Einstein, Albert

13.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

- Tracy, Brian

14.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

- Young

15.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

- Franklin, Benjamin

16.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

- Masillon, Jean Baptiste

17.

We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame.

18.

Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.

- Proverb, Korean

19.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

- Kahlil Gibran

20.

If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think "How lucky are the dead.

- Dorothy Parker