Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Pride

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

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.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Levant, Oscar

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

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

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Baily, Bernard

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Caesar, Julius

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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

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

Democritus

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Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

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

Bible

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Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Proverb

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

Proverb, Korean

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

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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

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

Pope, Alexander