2,116 Quotes About Pride

Pride is the luxury of the strong".

Risk should be taken for a cause not pleasure, life is not worth to ruin but to live with pride.

To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work, even knowledge and light may be ill pursued. Knowledge is good, and light is good: yet man perished in seeking knowledge, and moths perish in seeking light; and if we, who are crushed before the moth, will not accept such mystery as is needful to us, we shall perish in like manner.

It is a defeat of the spirit to learn one's arrogance causes such loss and pain. Pride invites you to soar to heights and the footing, tentative. farther, then, is the fall.

If you are a queen and I am a queen then who will fill the bucket of water?

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.

Confession is not all about telling your bad deeds to the public, but being proud of the bad things you have done so far.

It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his painful martyrdom certainly looked like self-nomination for sainthood. He's not sure he can keep up this exhausting, aw-shucks façade for much longer.

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.