Prideful Quotes

If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

[Referring to Jefferson Davis:] ... as cold as a lizzard with the ambition of Lucifer, and what he touches will not prosper.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

Hubris means deadly pride. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else.

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

People can call me arrogant, but why should I lie? Of course I feel strong, and of course I am proud as well.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

I'll be a Bay kid for the rest of my life. That's in my veins; that's in my bones.

Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'.

Pride ruined the angels.

It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

I'm proud of my country.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

I can't tell you how proud I am of all the Total Divas and just how excited I am about how well the show is doing.

'No Matter What' is, without question, the most personal song I have ever written and the one I am most proud of.

[He] has the temper of a hedgehog, the adhesiveness of a barnacle, the vanity of a peacock, the vindictiveness of a Corsican, and the duplicity of the devil.

I'm a good dad. I'm proud of that.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

Oh Lord... I don't really do pride.

I ain't never going to apologize for a 21-point win over a state rival, ever.