Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Caesar, Julius

Best Quotes about Pride

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

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

Bible

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

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

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

10.

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

Allen, Fred A.

11.

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

Ali, Muhammad

12.

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

Cowper, William

13.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

16.

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

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

Bible

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

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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

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

Proverb

22.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

23.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Allen, Fred A.

25.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

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

Democritus

27.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

29.

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

30.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

31.

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

32.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

Moliere

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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

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

Jackson, Jesse

39.

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

Caesar, Julius

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Eliot, George

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Baily, Bernard

48.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

49.

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

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

Sheen, Fulton John