Pride Quotes

“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
― Winston Churchill

“There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Do not believe that you alone can be right.
The man who thinks that,
The man who maintains that only he has the power
To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul—
A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.”
― E.M. Bounds

“It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.”
― Ayn Rand, Anthem

“Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.”
― Heather Bixler, Breaking Pride

“I clearly saw the skeleton underneath
all this show of personality
what is left of a man
and all his pride but bones?”
― Jack Kerouac, Scattered Poems

“Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World

“She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Deception sneaks in through the window of pride.”
― Evinda Lepins

“There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.”
― P.D. James, Unnatural Causes

“Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful...”
― Heather Bixler, Breaking Pride

“Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow.”
― E.M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer

“Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are right
To warn me against losing mine. I cannot say—
I hope that I shall never want to say!— that you
Have reasoned badly. Yet there are other men
Who can reason, too; and their opinions might be helpful.
You are not in a position to know everything
That people say or do, or what they feel:
Your temper terrifies them—everyone
Will tell you only what you like to hear.”
― Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

“I don't know why people are so shy about expressing openly in front of the world their longing for each other, the most powerful and tender natural attraction, but they pretend to be proud or indifferent and they don't consider, especially if they're young, that the sands of our life have been measured by God unto the last grain and that every carelessly wasted second of love sinks irreversibly into eternity.”
― Angel Wagenstein, Isaac's Torah: A Novel

“It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

“Love hath no pride.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kiss of the Highlander

“إن الغرور جريمة علمية قبل أن يكون جريمة خلقية”
― محمد الغزالي, مائة سؤال عن الإسلام

“We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

“God didn't send His only Son to die on the cross so that we can hide behind our guilt, shame, and pride.”
― Heather Bixler, Breaking Pride

“For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and of an unspeakable lie.

The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.”
― Ayn Rand, Anthem

“Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.”
― John Piper, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

“You need to decide what works for you. But ultimately, hold out for adoration and respect”
― Catherine Sanderson, Petite Anglaise

“There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.”
― Jack Vance, The Palace of Love

“The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness.”
― Heather Bixler, Breaking Pride

“You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.”
― Roger Kahn

“Stirred up pride is poison to the soul.”
― Evinda Lepins

“Envy, is Pride's greatest Fear.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues.”
― Heather Bixler, Breaking Pride

“A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.”
― Munia Khan