2,116 Quotes About Pride

  • Author Charles Caleb Colton
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    Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

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  • Author Charles Caleb Colton
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    Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

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  • Author Charles Caleb Colton
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    The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

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  • Author Confucius
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    To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

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  • Author Countee Cullen
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    All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood.

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  • Author David Cross
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    It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

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