Pride Quotes

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Johnson

Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.

Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)

Pride, envy, avarice - - These are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.

Alighieri Dante

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man? s values, it has to be earned.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea".

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely - Read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.

Samuel Johnson