Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

Stuart Stevens

3.

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

Eliot, George

4.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

5.

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

6.

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

Baily, Bernard

7.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

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

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Korean

14.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

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

Bible

16.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

18.

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

19.

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

Allen, Fred A.

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

23.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

24.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

26.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

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

32.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

33.

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

Democritus

34.

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

Pope, Alexander

35.

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

Ali, Muhammad

36.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

37.

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

O'Malley, Austin

38.

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

Jackson, Jesse

39.

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

Allen, Fred A.

40.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Caesar, Julius

47.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

48.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.