Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.” (Elizabeth Bennett)Ģ7. Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great your country becomes great because of your pride in it.Ģ6. You wear your honor like a suit of armor… You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.Ģ5. Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.Ģ4. There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you’re wrong and you can’t face it the other is when you’re right and nobody else can face it.Ģ3. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.Ģ2. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.Ģ1.
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.Ģ0. Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.ġ9. Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized…I’m just slutty. It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.ġ7.
When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.ġ6. Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.ġ4. Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like.ġ3. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.ġ2. As long as you are proud you cannot know God. All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.ġ0. Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.ĩ. Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.Ĩ. Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.ħ. A proud man is always looking down on things and people and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.Ħ. I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.ĥ. I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.Ĥ. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.ģ. A person may be proud without being vain. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. I would always rather be happy than dignified.Ģ.