Pride Quotes — page 13

Violent zeal for truth hath an hundred to one odds to be either petulancy, ambition, or pride.

Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once …

Let Charity forgive me a mistake, That zeal, not vanity, has chanced to make, And spare the poet for his subject’s sake.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

I am a man of the people, bred amongst them, and it has been the greatest joy of my life to have had some part in fighting the battles of the class from whom I am proud to have sprung.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules, Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Then all the pride of intellect and thought?

War had become a reality; they were tired of it. A law had been passed... called the conscript act. ... From this time on till the end of the war, a soldier was simply a machine, a conscript. ... All our pride and valor had gone, and we …

No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great heavens, did I write as well as that then?" for the implication always is that one does not write any longer so …

Faith is an humble, self-denying grace; it makes the Christian nothing in himself, and all in God.

Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity.

He that is endeavouring to subdue, and root out of his mind,all those passions of pride,envy and ambition,which religion opposes, is doing more to make himself happy, even in this life than he that is contriving means to indulge them.

Pride hated stands, and doth unpitied fall.

How the learned fool would wonder Were he now to see his blunder, When he put his reason under The control of worldly Pride.

I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right.

Oh vanity of man's unstable mind, Puffed up with every blast of friendly wind!

The pride, the glory of Britain, and the direct end of its constitution, is political liberty.

Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.

I belonged to the generation that saw the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, and never could I be consoled for that loss. And I here recall, with pardonable pride, that in 1908 I stood up against Germany in the Casablanca crisis, and that the …

A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being …

If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus [always, everywhere, and by …

How you would watch her, spaniel-like, to anticipate her slightest wish! How proud you were to do her bidding! How delightful it was to be ordered about by her! To devote your whole life to her and to never think of yourself seemed such a …

Here Lucifer the mighty Captive reigns; Proud, 'midst his Woes, and Tyrant in his Chains.