Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Baily, Bernard

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

Democritus

2.

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

Caesar, Julius

3.

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

4.

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

5.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

6.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

7.

We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame.

8.

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

Bible

9.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

10.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

Lewis, C. S.

11.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

12.

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

13.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

15.

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

Pope, Alexander

16.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

17.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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

Jackson, Jesse

19.

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

Baily, Bernard

20.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Eliot, T. S.

22.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

23.

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

24.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Murdoch, Iris

26.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

27.

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

O'Malley, Austin

28.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

29.

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

30.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

34.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

35.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Allen, Fred A.

39.

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

Proverb

40.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Pope, Alexander

41.

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

42.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

44.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

45.

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

Ali, Muhammad

46.

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

47.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Eliot, George

49.

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

Bernanos, Georges

50.

I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.