Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

Jackson, Jesse

2.

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

3.

Whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

Bible

4.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

5.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

8.

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

9.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Baily, Bernard

13.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Eliot, T. S.

20.

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

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

23.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

30.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

31.

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

Caesar, Julius

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

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

Stuart Stevens

34.

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

Bernanos, Georges

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Korean

37.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

Allen, Fred A.

43.

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

O'Malley, Austin

44.

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

45.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

46.

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

Bible

47.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

48.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

49.

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

50.

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

Sheen, Fulton John