P Quotes
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“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.”
Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
“Pride, cowardice, and miserliness are bad for me but good for women”
“Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.”
“Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.”
Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...
“Pride dies 20 minutes after death.”
“Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“Pride divides the men, humility joins them.”
“Pride does not listen. It knows.”
“Pride does not look up to God and care about what is right. It looks sideways to man and argues who is right. Pride is manifest in the spirit of contention. Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men. Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was not my will, but thine be done”
“Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.”
“Pride doesn't win battles.”
Source: Oathbringer
“Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.”
“Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Pride eradicates all vices but itself.”
“Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.”
Source: Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'
“Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“Pride goes before a fall.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.”
“Pride goes before common sense.”
Source: Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist
“Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
“Pride goes before destruction.”
Source: Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection
“Pride goes before the fall.”
“Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?”
“Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.”
“Pride had a chalky, bitter taste.”
Source: Edge of Sundown
“Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.”
“Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.”
“Pride has quite a bit to do with hatred. In many a case in which one hates another, one subconsciously begins patterns of cherry-picking and selective hearing: he continues to look only for things about the other person which he can use to justify his hatred, things which will then make him feel less guilty about hating someone. In this regard, hatred is not so much an emotion as it is a decision.”
Source: Healology
“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.”
“Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.”
Source: Shroud for the Archbishop
“Pride in one’s religion is the first step towards destruction.”
Source: Krishna Crux
“Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment.”
“Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.”
“Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.”
“Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.”
“Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.”
“Pride in who you are and feeling soul well and happy only manifests when you are brave enough to be real with yourself.”
Source: Unhackable Soul: Rise Up, Feel Alive, and Live Well with Pain and Illness
“Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.”
“Pride is a deceptive emotion that causes people to overestimate their abilities.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II
“Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which means true self-evaluation and a proper perspective toward past, present and future.”
“Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.”
Source: The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume
“Pride is a fool's fortress”
Source: Topaz
“Pride is a front. Humility is a fortress. Both are states of mind that feed on secrets, ego and pain. The more these three the more the pride, the less they are the higher the level of humility. Have nothing to hide, nothing to lose and nothing to prove and humility is sure. Pride sure comes before a fall”
“Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.”
“Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.”
Source: Practical magic