Pride Quotes — page 9

The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain — at least in a poor country like Russia — and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

The Queen must surely be proud of such heroic men as the Police and Irish soldiers as It takes eight or eleven of the biggest mud crushers in Melbourne to take one poor little half starved larrakin to a watch house. I have seen as many as …

It's a blessed thing to die daily.

We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succession.

The nearer any soul draws to God, the more humble will that soul lie before God...the most holy men have always been the most humble men...If the work be good, though never so low, humility will put a hand to it; so will not pride.

All is vanity,...discovering it—the greatest vanity.

He passed a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility; And he owned with a grin That his favorite sin Is pride that apes humility.

Of every species of pride or expence I abominate and detest that most which is lavished on the dead.

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

Proud and insolent youth, prepare to meet thy doom.

Animals of the MONKEY class are furnished with hands instead of paws; their ears, eyes, eye-lids, lips, and breasts, are like those of mankind; their internal conformation also bears some distant likeness; and the whole offers a picture …

I submit that it is an Agreement that this country may not only be contented with, but proud of.

The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride: The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside.

Hangs in th' uncertain balance of proud time.

I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified.

To know how much there is that we do not know, is one of the most valuable parts of our attainments; for such knowledge becomes both a lesson of humility and a stimulus to exertion.

It is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his …

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

I believe that the want of our age is not more "free" handling of the Bible, but more "reverent" handling, more humility, more patient study, and more prayer.