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

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

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

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sheen, Fulton John

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

13.

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

14.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

15.

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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Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Levant, Oscar

19.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Proverb, Korean

24.

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

Baily, Bernard

25.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bible

27.

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

Cowper, William

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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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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

34.

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

Bible

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

41.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Eliot, T. S.