60 Metaphors for pride

We are there led into an eternity of reflection and association of ideas; but lest human pride should be too fondly feasted in the retrospect, the hallowed towers of the abbey, seen in the distance, serve to remind us of the imperial maxim, that "art is long, and life but short.

Pride and vanity are feelings which characterize all grades of human beings from the highest to the lowest.

There is no sense of stirring adventure, of exultation, or pride about itit is just an infinite untroubled calm, of beautiful things perceived in a serenity untroubled by memory or hope, by sorrow or fear.

Their pride and glory were the prosperity of their Order,an intense esprit de corps, never equalled by any body of men.

The pride of life, then, is God's gift which means dependence changed and distorted into independence, revolt and disobedience.

"His pride is the pride of the fiend.

A little pride is a wonderful tonic.

Pride is a mighty honor!

The pride of modern Zurich is the Bahnhof-strasse, a long street which leads from the railroad station to the lake.

" Of her pride"that stumbling block," as she calls it, to Christian meeknessshe herself writes: "My pride is my bane.

Pride in some particular Disguise or other, (often a Secret to the proud Man himself) is the most ordinary Spring of Action among Men.

I expected every day some of the men to give out, but their pride to conquer hardships was, with them, the point of honor.

Pride has ever been the chief cause of the downfall of royal favorites.

Pride is a great match-maker.

Poor DICK further advises, and says Fond Pride of Dress is, sure, a very curse!

A perusal of the Religio Medici will not much contribute to produce a belief of the author's exemption from this father-sin; pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.

That pride is not my sin, Sloven's Hall, where I was born, be my record.

Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful.

The difference between the last two is this: pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect; while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself.

Pride, consciousness, and egotism are the natural result of power and flattery in all conditions of life; and when a single man controls the destinies of nations, he is an exception to the infirmities of human nature if he does not seek to bend everything before his haughty will.

The pride of the position, of bearing everything rather than give in, or making a submission we do not feel, of preserving our own will and individuality to all eternity, is the only compensation.

Pride was the sole aversion of his Eye, Himself as Humble as his Art was High.

The pride of quenchless strength is his Strength which, though chained, avails; The very rebel looks and thrills The anchored Emblem hails.

His pride was the service of the public.

His pride became a proverb.

60 Metaphors for  pride