Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

Bernanos, Georges

2.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

3.

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

4.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

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

Eliot, George

6.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

7.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

8.

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

9.

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

Baily, Bernard

10.

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

11.

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

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

14.

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

Ali, Muhammad

15.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

18.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Eliot, T. S.

22.

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

23.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

24.

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.

25.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

26.

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

Stuart Stevens

27.

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

O'Malley, Austin

28.

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

Jackson, Jesse

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

31.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

Cowper, William

34.

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

35.

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

Allen, Fred A.

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

Pride sullies the noblest character.