Best pride & may Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.”

Source: Killosophy

“It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.”

Men May Shows Pride Proud Glasses Knees Arrogance Fees Supple Proud Man

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

“To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.”

Way Want Should May Stills Done Able Forget Principles Rights Pride Demand Forgiveness My Friends Forgiving Refuse Quitting One Way Guarantees Scar Unspeakable Guarantees That

Author:Frederick Buechner

“It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.”

May Art Rooms Wall Pride Lovers Great Men Devoted Vans Living Room Collectors Prospects Art Lovers Room Wall Living Room Wall

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.”

Humans May Happens Opportunity Society Pride Civilization Accidents Dependent Preservation Maximum Humiliating

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.”

Source: Among the Hills, and Other Poems

“Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.”

May Long Has Beens Stills War Age Term Youth Pride Prove Brave Noble Wounds Old Age Scar Unbound Old Wounds

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays

“A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England

“Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.”

May Certain Example Pride Charity Satisfied Motive Zeal

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.”

People May Mean Persons Two Ends Grows Moral Security Expression Pride Goes On Habit Taste Noble Love Each Other

Book:The Best of Willa Cather

Source: The Best of Willa Cather

“Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.”

Men Giving May Stills Facts Feelings Destiny Pride Evolution Higher Scales Summit Risen Exertion Origin Of Man

Book:The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality

Source: The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality

“Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.”

May Real Crime Pride Kings Court Endless Artifice Real Ones

Book:The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works

Source: The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Complete, Including His Posthumous Works

“Connect with all the passions people have - for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing.”

People World May Ends Earth Passion Next Community Willing Products Pride

Author:Patrick Dixon

“Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.”

Way Firsts May Children Grows Common Flower Pride Gold Dear Pledge Pluck May Flowers Flowers Growing

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939

“Eternal God, lead me now out of the familiar setting of my doubts and fears, beyond my pride and my need to be secure into a strange and graceful ease with my true proportions and with yours; that in boundless silence I may grow strong enough to endure and flexible enough to share your grace.”

Source: Guerrillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle

“Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.”

May Common Sweet Pride Affection Bitter Jealousy Without Love Love Jealousy Love And Jealousy

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“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.”

May Self Feelings Certain Quality Opinion Pride Satisfied Vanity Imaginary Complacency Qualifications

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.”

Want Firsts May Desire Deals Pieces Pride Fine Easier Ten Appearance Loud Beggar Fine Things

Book:The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

“How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish, Because the living cared not to cherish No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names forever memorize!”

May Might Remember Names Forever Pride Wit Gentle Cherish Great Ones Authorship Sponges

Author:Edmund Spenser

“May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.”

May Forever Humility Pride Modest Accompany Servility

Book:The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty

Source: The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty

“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.”

Ifs May Joy Sacrifice Pride Misery Faults Prepared Possession Midst Boast Thorough Disclosure

Book:Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Source: Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

“There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.”