Self Pride Quotes

“I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“Don't sell yourself short. You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“Showing up begins long before you stand at the start. Prove yourself an exception in a world where people talk more than act. Intent without follow-through is hollow. Disappoint yourself enough times and empty is how you feel. Make yourself proud. Fill yourself up.
Show up.”
― Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

“Personal growth commences with an ego death. Self-pride blunts personal growth because the ego resists change. The ego wants to maintain the status quo by holding onto false notions of the self. The ego desires me to see all of my failures as someone else’s fault.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“No body is worth more than your body”
― Melody Carstairs

“Never force yourself on another. If you do this, then this is you trampling on your own dignity without the external help.”
― Omoakhuana Anthonia

“If it's not on the table, don't eat it off the floor.”
― Melody Carstairs

“A person with a large tuber of self-pride remains engrossed in the fear of, ‘Someone is going to insult me…someone is going to insult me’ or ‘From where can I get respect? From where can I get the respect?”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Awareness’ will not arise where there is deceit along with self-pride (maan). If there is deceit with self-pride, then one can never see the self-pride.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“In the ignorant state, there is a ‘limit’ for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.”
― Dada Bhagwan