Motivational Quotes

Pride

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Best Quotes about Pride

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

Gilbert, W. S.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

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

Bible

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

Democritus

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Cowper, William

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

10.

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

11.

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

Stuart Stevens

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

17.

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

Ali, Muhammad

18.

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

Allen, Fred A.

19.

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

20.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

21.

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

Proverb

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.

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

O'Malley, Austin

24.

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

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Caesar, Julius

31.

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

32.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

34.

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

Pope, Alexander

35.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

36.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Eliot, George

40.

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

Allen, Fred A.

41.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

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

47.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

Bible

50.

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