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No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him. — Edmund Burke

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. — Charles De Gaulle

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility. — Marcus Aurelius

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. — Isoroku Yamamoto

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood. — Charles Fletcher Dole

Matt was deeply touched that his estranged son would come to him for advice. He wasn't going to let it show, of course. A man had his pride. — Diana Palmer

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. — C.S. Lewis

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. — Charles Caleb Colton

Pride? What are you talking about?" "You wear your independence like a badge of honor. Bound and determined to allow no man to take care of you. — Magda Alexander

Pride lets a man be skewered on the point of other people's expectations. — Mark Lawrence

The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him. — Jean De La Bruyere

Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything - even the prospect of living out my days in the Antipodes. — Jennifer Paynter

It is seldom a medical man has true religious views
there is too much pride of intellect. — George Eliot

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself. — Alexis De Tocqueville

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement. — Pearl S. Buck

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't. — Criss Jami

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing. — Henry Ford

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty. — Walter Lippmann

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride. — Nachman Of Breslov

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man. — Jane Austen

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath
all this show of personality
what is left of a man
and all his pride but bones? — Jack Kerouac

How many times can a man kowtow and snivel before his thorny little crumb of pride pokes him into action? — T.W. Piperbrook

It is a strange experience for a man of pride and feeling to know that his interests are in the control of strangers who don't like or understand him. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

A man's spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities — Jeremy Aldana

The less worth of a man,the greater his pride. — Yukito Kishiro

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. — Baruch Spinoza

A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it. — Conn Iggulden

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. — Joseph Addison

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question ... so break 'yo'self'! — T.F. Hodge

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. — Josh Billings

A man's pride was a fragile thing. A warrior's pride was his greatest weapon. A sheik's pride upheld the honor of his people. — Nalini Singh

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job. — Ethel Mumford

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. — Joseph Joubert

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!' — John F. Kennedy

I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads. — William Shakespeare

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity. — J. Oswald Sanders

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A dead man's vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being's pride. — Munia Khan

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. — Laurence Sterne

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are. — Criss Jami