Motivational Quotes

Pride

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Pride

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Bible

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

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

Bible

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

10.

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

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

12.

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

Caesar, Julius

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Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

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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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Levant, Oscar

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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

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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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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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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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The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

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

Bible

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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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Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

37.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Proverb, Korean

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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