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Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of ...
— Benjamin Franklin
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
— Jules Verne
In opposition to this celestial tenderness, he summoned up pride, the fortress of evil in man.
— Victor Hugo
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
The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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
The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.
— Criss Jami
The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.
— Nachman Of Breslov
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
— Jules Verne
The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
— Friedrich Schiller
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
It is seldom a medical man has true religious views
there is too much pride of intellect. — George Eliot
there is too much pride of intellect. — George Eliot
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
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
The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
— Thomas Paine
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
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
— Alexander Pope
If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.
He will have nothing to live for. — James Edwin Gunn
He will have nothing to live for. — James Edwin Gunn
How many times can a man kowtow and snivel before his thorny little crumb of pride pokes him into action?
— T.W. Piperbrook
Humility exalteth man to the heaven of glory and power, whilst pride abaseth him to the depths of wretchedness and degradation.
— Baha'u'llah
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
— Alain-Rene Le Sage
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
all this show of personality
what is left of a man
and all his pride but bones? — Jack Kerouac
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.
— Jane Austen
The Foolish man is one who takes pride in hate and oppression of the unfortunate. He is weak because of such behavior.
— Ellen J. Barrier
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
How can the creation challenge and control the Creator? Oh mortal man, know that there is an immortal God with an immortal power!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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
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
The less worth of a man,the greater his pride.
— Yukito Kishiro
A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.
— Conn Iggulden
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
A man's spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities
— Jeremy Aldana
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
— Albert Pike
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
Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.
— John Gay
I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.
— William Shakespeare
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
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
Pride counterbalances all these miseries; man either hides or displays them, and glories in his awareness of them.
— Blaise Pascal
A dead man's vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being's pride.
— Munia Khan
With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.
— Criss Jami
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
— Joseph Joubert
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
Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.
— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani