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The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana1863–1952The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society
- Fame
But man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he’s most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep
William Shakespeare1564–1616Measure for Measure (c. 1604), Act II, Scene II, spoken by IsabellaIn context
- Power
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911), Preface
- Work
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings.”
Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Ozymandias (1818)In context
- Power
Crave not mastery in all,
For the mastery that raised thee was thy bane and wrought thy fall.
Sophocles496–406 BCOedipus the King (c. 429 BC), spoken by CreonIn context
- Power
Of insolence is bred
The tyrant; insolence full blown,
With empty riches surfeited,
Scales the precipitous height and grasps the throne.
Then topples o’er and lies in ruin prone;
No foothold on that dizzy steep.
Sophocles496–406 BCOedipus the King (c. 429 BC), spoken by ChorusIn context
- Power
Swelling words of high-flown might
Mightily the gods do smite.
Chastisement for errors past
Wisdom brings to age at last.
Sophocles496–406 BCAntigone (c. 441 BC), spoken by ChorusIn context
- Age
- Wisdom
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed.
Barbra Streisandborn 1942Playboy interview (1977), as quoted in No Glass Slipper: Surviving and Conquering Painful Life Experiences (2006), p. 32
- Character
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms, Chapter VIn context
- War & Peace
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Stray Birds (1916), 57
There was ease in Casey’s manner as he stepped into his place;
There was pride in Casey’s bearing and a smile lit Casey’s face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,
No stranger in the crowd could doubt ’twas Casey at the bat.
Ernest Lawrence Thayer1863–1940Casey at the Bat (1888)In context
- Baseball
It is often better for a person to recognize a sin than to do a good deed. Recognizing a sin makes a person humble. Doing a good deed often can feed a person’s pride.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Path of Life (1909), p. 108
- Morality
How good is it to remember one’s insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Last Diaries (1979) edited by Leon Stilman, p. 77
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
Anthony Trollope1815–1882The Bertrams (1859), Ch. 27