2,116 Quotes About Pride

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.

But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.

He leaned down to her ear and purred. Damn but she loved when he purred.

When you swallow that pride, Eve, take care you don't choke on it.

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.

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.

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986

-¿Para que quieres tener una máquina nueva si no la vas a usar?-Precisamente porque es bella y por orgullo. La utilidad no es lo que buscaba al comprarla.

There's pride and then there's stupidity.