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Pride

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
- Pope, Alexander
Pride Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Pride

1.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
Eliot, T. S.

2.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
Voltaire

3.
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
Bernanos, Georges

4.
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
Jefferson, Thomas

5.
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

6.
Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
Proverb

7.
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

8.
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
Pope, Alexander

9.
You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.
Proverb, Yiddish

10.
The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
Allen, Fred A.

11.
Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.
Jackson, Jesse

12.
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

13.
The nobler the blood the less the pride.
Proverb, Danish

14.
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

15.
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
Levant, Oscar

16.
Whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.
Bible

17.
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Caesar, Julius

18.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.
Pride sullies the noblest character.
Claudianus

20.
I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. [Luke 16:3]
Bible

21.
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
Democritus

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

24.
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

25.
I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!
Ali, Muhammad

26.
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.
I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Thoreau, Henry David

28.
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Franklin, Benjamin

29.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
Gilbert, W. S.

30.
God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble [James 4:6]
Bible

31.
Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
Proverb, Korean

32.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.
We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame.

34.
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
Allen, Fred A.

35.
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

36.
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
O'Malley, Austin

37.
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
Colton, Charles Caleb

38.
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

39.
There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Hubbard, Elbert

40.
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

41.
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
Masillon, Jean Baptiste

42.
Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

43.
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

44.
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

45.
Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Proverb, Jewish

46.
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
Cowper, William

47.
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

48.
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
Stuart Stevens

49.
Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.
Tyger, Frank

50.
It ain't bragging if you can do it.
Dean, Dizzy


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