Prideful Quotes

“Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The day your education makes you roll your eyes at your father. The day your exposure makes you call your own mother uncivilized, the day your amazing foreign degrees make you cringe as your driver speaks pidgin english, may you never forget your grandfather was a farmer from Oyo state who never understood english.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

“Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.”
― Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

“People often miss out on human genius because they're trying to be more perfect than the gods.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“I was bred for war darling
be it love
or chaos
everything I do
is to the death.”
― Dave Wise

“What separates stupidity and smartness is just a tittle of pride and overconfidence.”
― Sinario Vesta, Shambala Sect

“Fuck that, go lay an egg, I’m next.”
― H.S. Crow

“The greatest men are the ones that realize they are not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. You will see it perhaps often in this History. For even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my Humility.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography and Other Writings

“Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him…They sink lower - becoming interested in their own personalities and then in nothing but their own reputations.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“Pride is the gift that keeps on taking.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is commonplace constantly to set goals and be prideful of prior accomplishments. It is rare to take no satisfaction from prior achievements. When I finally secure modest economic rewards and achieve other milepost accomplishments that formerly eluded me, I no longer assign value to the blood works that I exquisitely labored to achieve. Why do I write off as silly all labor-intensive deeds that grievously taxed me? How do I end this cycle of pain and learn to let it be, accept the world as it is, and extend love and compassion to the entire world? Sometimes asking questions is more important than immediately discovering a fitting response. While writing this scroll, I ask an inordinate amount of questions, many of which direct inquiries prove unanswerable. The more penetrating the query, the more time it will take to construct a proper reply. Perhaps I should continue asking pertinent questions about the meaning of life until I discover how to live. Rainer Maria Rilke advised, ‘Live your questions now, and perhaps without even knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.’ Exploratory writing addressing how to respond to distinct emotional turmoil is my first act of consciousness, my first attempt towards achieving self-awareness. Perhaps I can continue writing until I discover pathway to mindfulness, which Jeff Wilson described in his 2014 book ‘Mindful America: Meditation and the Mutual Transformation of Buddhism and American Culture,’ as ‘the intentional, accepting, and non-judgmental focus of one’s attention on the emotions, thoughts, and sensations occurring in the present moment.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“DJ, let Trisha look. She's really good at this doctor thing," Ashna said and Trisha Raje grinned at her as though she had just dropped the deepest curtsy in front of her.
DJ picked up the colander filled with okra and moved to the fryer. "As I've already mentioned, my hands are fine. I hope yours are still worth as much as they were last evening." Definitely a petty bastard.
That made her tilt her head in confusion again. Apparently, you needed no memory at all to get through medical school. Or maybe it was he who needed to have his head examined for remembering every word that had come out of her mouth like some fragile, egotistical half-wit.”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

“As much as he was thankful for the rescue, his pride kind of wished he wasn't. It'd taken twice the beating the Regime guards'd given him, and pride never took a beating well.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“Don't Feel Too✊Pompous Becoz Of What You Have Today”
― Gugu Mofokeng

“Do not embark on a quest to find pride. In humility, let pride remain lost.”
― Tony Cleaver, A Chain of Flames

“Mercy is the province of cowards.”
― Amie Kaufman

“As long as the battle is won, what does it matter who the tiger bites?”
― Amie Kaufman

“True greatness does not flaunt itself in long displays. Rather, it comes in the briefest moments to quickly appear and then submerge itself to shape the tides of time from deep places.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Often in life, we draw conclusions and reflexively take action based on what we see; which in the majority of situations is achingly insignificant or just plain wrong.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“We chose this for many reasons, all of them selfish. We wanted to be remembered, in history, as well as through our descendants. But some things are better left...forgotten. I just... I need you to deeply consider that when it comes time to make decisions again.”
― Ezra Claytan Daniels, Upgrade Soul

“Our efforts to rescue ourselves only serves to enhance our need to be rescued.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Never assume that you know best. For if you believe that you ‘know best,’ it’s because you know neither.”
― Craig D Lounsbrough

“If you believe that you’ve got God on a leash, the person who’s actually on the leash is you and the thing that’s holding the other end of it is your stupidity.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Arrogance admits nothing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Pride always wants a little smarting.”
― William Godwin

“Any patient might be grateful for those hands working in his vitals with such speed and accuracy. But once the task was over whether the patient lived or died was none of Kang's concern. He seldom inquired. He often refused altogether to operate on an old woman, on a poor man or on a frightened child. Crying children especially annoyed him,”
― Pearl S. Buck, Kinfolk

“Might I work to be better than the self that I claim is better.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Being Italian isn’t just about where you are from, it’s about passion in your soul, flavor in your life, and love at the center of everything you do.”
― Giuseppe Sanfilippo