Wounded Pride Quotes

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.