(1574 quotes found)
“They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.”
Jay Carr
“More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.”
Dan Gable
“Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men”
Dante Alighieri
“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
John Ruskin
“Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies”
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.”
Aeschylus
“The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief”
Japanese Proverb
“All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right”
Alexander Pope
“The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.”
William Blake
