Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Pride

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

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Bible

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

11.

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

Levant, Oscar

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Stuart Stevens

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

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

18.

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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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

20.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

21.

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

22.

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

Cowper, William

23.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

Bernanos, Georges

26.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

29.

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

Allen, Fred A.

30.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Proverb, Korean

32.

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

Caesar, Julius

33.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

34.

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

35.

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

Democritus

36.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

37.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

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

O'Malley, Austin

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.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Jackson, Jesse

44.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

45.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

47.

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

50.

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

Allen, Fred A.