Proud Man Quotes - Page 2

• The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Humility

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.44, BookBaby

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• The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Order, Religion

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• Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

  Aristotle

  Pride, Men, People

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• A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Waiting, Vacancy

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• Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I - it's - I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Blessed, Humor

  "The Second Hundred Days: The Quiz" by Paul Slansky, www.newyorker.com. August 20, 2001.

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• Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

  Hannah More

  Humble, Sleep, Pride

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.753

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• There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Pride, Men, Delicacy

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.201

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• To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Opposites, Proud

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.50, Macmillan

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• The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretense to claim.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Thinking, Proud

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.312

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• Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

  Orson Scott Card

  Humble, Men, Trying

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.13, Macmillan

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• A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

  Will Graham

  Death, Wisdom, Lying

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• Lot's and lot's I am a proud man having so many fans of my work: (Paintings and films)

  Tom Six

  Men, Fans, Proud

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• God Himself heals the proud. This means that inner sorrows (by which pride is healed) are sent to us by God, for the proud man will not suffer anything from others. But the humble person will endure everything, and will always say, 'I deserve this.'

  Ambrose of Optina

  Christian, Mean, Humble

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• Draw nigh to the righteous, and through them you will draw nigh to God. Communicate with those who possess humility, and you will learn morals from them. A man who follows one who loves God becomes rich in the mysteries of God; but he who follows an unrighteous and proud man gets far away from God, and will be hated by his friends.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• It is a great good to be given over to the will of God. Then the Lord alone is in the soul, and no other thought, and she prays to God with a pure mind. When the soul is entirely given over to the will of God, then the Lord Himself begins to guide her, and the soul learns directly from God ... A proud man does not with to live according to the will of God. He likes to direct himself, and does not understand that man does not have enough understanding to direct himself without God.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.115

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• Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

  Henry Taylor

  Fall, Character, Men

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.27

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• My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

  Bear Grylls

  Men, Years, Important

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• And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humble, Men, Watches

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Children, Equality, Men

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• If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?

  Rachilde

  Pride, Men, Thinking

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• The proud man hath no God; the envious
  man hath no neighbor; the angry man
  hath not himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Anger, Men, Angry Man

  Joseph Hall (1860). “Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments”, p.18

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• The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Doe, Proud

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

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• Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Men, Proud, Action

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• It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pride, Men, Forgiving

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