Henry Ford Quotes

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.