2,116 Quotes About Pride

Few except the poor preserve traditions. Aristocrats live not in traditions but in fashions.

When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.

It was one of the links between the ground-down poor and the wasteful rich. The girl felt that even if she had less than anybody in Williamsburg, somehow she had more. She was richer because she had something to waste.

It's fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda.

Open-mindedness simplifies knowledge acquisition.

Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning.

The heart of the Pharisee is within us all, to redefine God's law so it doesn't apply to me anymore. It applies to my neighbor but not to me.

Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not.