Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Pride

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

Democritus

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Korean

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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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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

12.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stuart Stevens

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You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

15.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

16.

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

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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

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

Jackson, Jesse

19.

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

20.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

21.

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

Bible

22.

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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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb

25.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

26.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Allen, Fred A.

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Pope, Alexander

38.

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

43.

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

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

Cowper, William

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The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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.