Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Pride

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

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

Bible

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

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

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Caesar, Julius

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

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

Stuart Stevens

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

Cowper, William

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

Levant, Oscar

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

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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

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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

29.

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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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Pope, Alexander

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You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Democritus

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

Bible

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

Baily, Bernard

42.

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

43.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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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

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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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Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

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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