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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
William Hazlitt1778–1830The Plain Speaker (1826)
Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth.
Homer900–800 BCThe Odyssey (8th century BC), Book XVIIIIn context
- Men
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity, that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. It is only spurious pride that is morbid and sensitive, and shrinks from every touch.
Washington Irving1783–1859The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820), “The Country Church”
- Character
Those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30Gospel of Luke, 18:14 NIV
And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of Matthew (1611), Matthew 23:12 (KJV)In context
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.
James Joyce1882–1941Dubliners (1914), ArabyIn context
- Anger
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Carl Jung1875–1961
And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worth while, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: “I served in the United States Navy.”
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Remarks at the U.S. Naval Academy (1 August 1963), Public Papers of the Presidents 321, p. 620
- America
‘There is none like to me!’ says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill;
But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Jungle Book (1894), Kaa’s hunting.In context
Part of me suspects that I’m a loser and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.
John Lennon1940–1980Playboy interview (1980)
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book III, Chapter 8, “The Great Sin”
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963
But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Upon proclaiming a National Fast Day (30 March 1863)
- God
Narcissism comes not out of self-love but out of self-hatred.
Audre Lorde1934–1992Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface”, p. 62
The most ignorant are the most conceited.
Horace Mann1796–1859Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 6
- Intelligence