2,116 Quotes About Pride

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.

In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, and we are in the presence of someone who is more successful, intelligent and good-looking than we are, we lose all pleasure in what we had. That is because we really had no pleasure in it. We were proud of it.

Go ragged then, but pride makes a poor covers; once one man laughs you're naked.

One subtle arena of attack is in the area of pride. Praying people can become prideful about their praying. Non-participants can become prideful in their resistance. The enemy seeks to divide and conquer every initiative of prayer.

Pride has quite a bit to do with hatred. In many a case in which one hates another, one subconsciously begins patterns of cherry-picking and selective hearing: he continues to look only for things about the other person which he can use to justify his hatred, things which will then make him feel less guilty about hating someone. In this regard, hatred is not so much an emotion as it is a decision.

Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.

...my pride in Joachim Mahlke was as sweet as chocolate creams.

No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth...

Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.