Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

Allen, Fred A.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Eliot, T. S.

5.

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

Proverb

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 infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

8.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Cowper, William

14.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

15.

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

O'Malley, Austin

16.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Korean

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Levant, Oscar

22.

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

Jackson, Jesse

23.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

Eliot, George

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Bernanos, Georges

31.

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

32.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

33.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

34.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

37.

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

Democritus

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

42.

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

Stuart Stevens

43.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

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