2,116 Quotes About Pride

He embraced himself with pride, because he knew that this ugly, faeces-stained, smelly little demon hadn´t lost completely.

The peasants of love pillage the town of my prideful heart until I burn with compassion.

Hatred stems from pride because vanity makes us detest and have contempt for anything or anyone who detracts from our importance.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

I thought of this, tell me whether it is true or false; you do not know something, you cannot know everything and you can miss anything

In the ignorant state, there is a ‘limit’ for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.

Self pride hinders the soul from flourishing,

if you think you know all that somebody knows, you shall least know all that somebody knows. If you think you least know all that somebody knows, you shall really know all that somebody knows.

Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.