Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

O'Malley, Austin

2.

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

3.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

4.

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

5.

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

Proverb

6.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

7.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

8.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

9.

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Stuart Stevens

13.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Allen, Fred A.

15.

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

16.

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

Bernanos, Georges

17.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

21.

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

Proverb, Korean

22.

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

Baily, Bernard

23.

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

24.

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

Eliot, T. S.

25.

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

26.

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.

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

28.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

29.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

30.

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

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

33.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

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

Cowper, William

42.

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

43.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

44.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

45.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

46.

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