Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

2.

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

Jackson, Jesse

3.

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

Cowper, William

4.

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

O'Malley, Austin

5.

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

Proverb

6.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

7.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

11.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

13.

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

Bernanos, Georges

14.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

15.

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

Eliot, T. S.

16.

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

Eliot, George

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

21.

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

22.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Levant, Oscar

25.

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

Baily, Bernard

26.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

29.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

37.

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

38.

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

Ali, Muhammad

39.

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

Bible

40.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

46.

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

Pope, Alexander

47.

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