Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Gilbert, W. S.

Best Quotes about Pride

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

Stuart Stevens

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

Pope, Alexander

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Caesar, Julius

10.

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

Bible

11.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

15.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

16.

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

Levant, Oscar

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

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

Baily, Bernard

20.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

21.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Allen, Fred A.

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Eliot, George

25.

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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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

27.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

28.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

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

32.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

33.

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

Cowper, William

34.

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.

35.

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

Proverb, Korean

36.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

38.

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

Eliot, T. S.

41.

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

42.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Democritus

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Jackson, Jesse

46.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

49.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish