Pride Quotes - Page 3

How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.

I felt the same way the world felt about Kurtis; It revolved around him.

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one - so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim - the greater man.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?

Let us thank God for valour in abstraction
For those who go their own way, will not kiss
The arse of law and order nor compound
For physical comfort at the price of pride

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

I can only be me not thee, as far as the eyes can see!

If I weren’t too proud, I’d boast of my exaggerated opinion of myself.

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.

There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance.

The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.