Gilbert Parker Quotes

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

The flip side of humiliation is pride.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.

I never wanted anyone's pity.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of: the last he does not concern himself about.

It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.

It's very tough for a ballplayer to get proud and keep his dignity.

I am not often proud.

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

I don't want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.

It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.