pride

You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

Perfection isn't necessarily found only in publicly accepted trends. Perfection is found in self.

I'm above crawling on my knees for certain favors. What you cannot give me: I cannot beg for it. This is not arrogance or pride. This is having a clear understanding of my self worth._

You were scared they were going to laugh at you, right? So let them! People who discourage others will never find their own happiness!

The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.

Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could take no pride, which could not in any way determine my affection.

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!

Evaluate yourself and your calling worthily enough and be proud of it

Pride can be friend, ego can be foe...depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I was never confronted by any impulse to express things and to make others understand something that I knew.

Someone who is said to have a big ego is thought to be full of themselves, to lack the ability to listen, to always rush to be at the top of the tree and to think their own ideas are the best.

Self importance is self pride.

Much self-condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark, 'One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man'. In ancient Athens, when a politician was trying to get the votes of the working class by appearing very humble in a tattered coat with big holes in it, Socrates unmasked his hypocrisy by exclaiming, 'Your vanity shows forth from every whole in your coat'.

My dear friends, from the devil's standpoint there is not the slightest difference between being puffed up with pride in yourself or spending the whole of your time condemning yourself. Either way the devil is very well-pleased. Any concentration upon self in any shape or form is of the devil.