Top 1200 Pride And Arrogance Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it.

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

The less worth of a man, the greater his pride.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

There's always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.

Everyone knows about Amitabh Bachchan being a legendary actor, and I had this sense of arrogance that I can make him do what I want. But what he did on locations completely blew me away. I realised that I understand the quality of performances even more after seeing him perform.

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

I pride myself on buying really good presents.

Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage.

I pride myself on having the most exciting fights ever.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

I tell my kids in the Academy at Newcastle to watch Henry. He plays with such a swagger, not an arrogance, and that is a great quality. He always looks so comfortable. You talk about cars going from 0 to 60 in a matter of seconds, and he is like that. He just explodes. I could sit there for hours and watch him.

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite?

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.

I pride myself in helping people in the community however I can.

On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

Pride also has a bill! Get ready to pay it!

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

We pride ourselves on taking opportunities to win when we have them.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.

The path marked Pride will lead you over a cliff.

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

There is no shame in falling down but there is pride in getting back up.

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.

I have a knack for getting the ball and it's something I take pride in.

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.

I pride myself on making plays and being open.

I take a lot of pride in my first '92 gold medal.

Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.

My animation work is a major source of pride for me.

I take a lot of pride in connecting with people - period.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.

Personality-wise, I like to avoid putting my pride on parade.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.