Quotes about pride
pride political enemy
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter. Thomas Hobbes
pride order omnipotence
A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride. Umberto Eco
pride helping-others play
The greatest joy I get is setting up plays for somebody else. I take a lot of pride in helping other people make plays. Troy Polamalu
pride religion cures
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. Reinhold Niebuhr
pride idols giving
If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to your own pride, lusts, or ego. You were designed to worship God and if you fail to worship Him, you will create other things (idols) to give your life to. You are free to choose, what you surrender to but you are not free from the consequence of that choice. Rick Warren
pride laughing people
You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are. Veronica Roth
pride people abnegation
Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.
pride men people
Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed. Haruki Murakami
pride littles proud
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. Karl Kraus
pride giving humanity
The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride? Kanye West
pride honor way
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. William Faulkner
pride religion needs
It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.
pride talking long
He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
pride kind guilty
I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set. Willem Dafoe
pride minutes after-death
Pride dies 20 minutes after death. Saint Francis de Sales
pride should
Your wisdom should be without pride. Saint Augustine
pride proud source
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.
pride play race
We've got a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride and contracts and different things. Now that we are out of the race, guys are playing looser and you can see it in our play. Wes Walz
pride israel classical-music
It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music. Zubin Mehta
pride gay thinking
Yeah, the gay pride movement is precious and all, but I think it's about time we asked ourselves what gay people really have to offer to society. Zach Braff
pride opportunity growth
I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy Zhu Rongji
pride age matter
For me it is a matter of pride that I have been born in the age in the which Tendulkar is playing Sania Mirza
pride needs day-to-day
At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore. Sandra Bernhard
pride men enemy
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. Samuel Johnson
pride men discovery
Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
pride mind intellectual
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
pride government views
Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.. William Howard Taft
pride ideas interesting
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. Walter Bagehot
pride shame cloaks
Shame is pride's cloak. William Blake
pride two wife
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
pride glory glory-of-god
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
pride wrath lust
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
pride action dishonorable
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. Samuel Richardson