Quotes about Pride
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
— Andrew Carnegie
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
— Andrew Jackson
It sounds beautiful to be called West Ham's top Premier League scorer.
— Michail Antonio
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
— William Hazlitt
When I see a car I've designed going down the street and somebody admiring it, that's a nice feeling.
— Henrik Fisker
The composer Igor Stravinsky wisely said, "I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received."3
— Philip Graham Ryken
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.
— Phillips Brooks
In a certain sense we can be proud to have introduced this hairstyle to Europe. 'Plica polonica' should be added to the list of our inventions, alongside crude oil, pierogi and vodka.
— Olga Tokarczuk
People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.
— Constance Wu
Men, it's okay to be a man!
— Jesse Lee Peterson
The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.
— Jonathan Edwards
If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God's.
— Jonathan Edwards