There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion. Reinhold Niebuhr
US Protestant theologian (1892 - 1971) Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. Johnson Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) Pride the first peer and president of hell. Daniel Defoe There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves. C. C. Colton We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable. Robert Cecil The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. Henry Bolingbroke This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward. Zig Ziglar Work is victory. Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) | 
