Pride

11 quotes.

• Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

  Proverbs 16:18

• There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

  Attributed to Ernest Hemingway

• The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

  Fulton J. Sheen

• But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

  Anonymous

• Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh.

  Anonymous

• From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.

  Louis Untermeyer

• It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

  Albert Brooks

• Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem.

  Rabino Nilton Bonder

• There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

• Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

  Proverbs 16:18

• He that is proud eats up himself.

  William Shakespeare

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