Motivational Quotes

Pride

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

2.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

3.

Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.

Jackson, Jesse

4.

I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!

Ali, Muhammad

5.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Eliot, T. S.

6.

God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble [James 4:6]

Bible

7.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Sheen, Fulton John

8.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

9.

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

Baily, Bernard

10.

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

Pope, Alexander

11.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Gilbert, W. S.

12.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us,something is out of tune.

Jung, Carl

13.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

15.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom --one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

Keats, John

17.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

18.

Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.

Proverb, Korean

19.

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.

James, William

20.

I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. [Luke 16:3]

Bible

21.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

Cowper, William

22.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Democritus

23.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

24.

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

Bernanos, Georges

25.

Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

Stuart Stevens

26.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

27.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

O'Malley, Austin

28.

It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!

Chatterton, Thomas

29.

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

Shakespeare, William

30.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Keating, Paul

31.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Levant, Oscar

33.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

Charles Caleb Colton

34.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

35.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

Allen, Fred A.

36.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him. [Ecclesiasticus 13:1]

Bible

37.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

38.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Saunders, Frederick

39.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

40.

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

Dale Carnegie

41.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Caesar, Julius

43.

Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.

Proverb

44.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion