Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

Best Quotes about Pride

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cowper, William

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Pope, Alexander

11.

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

Bible

12.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

13.

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

14.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

15.

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

Ali, Muhammad

16.

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

Jackson, Jesse

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

19.

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

Bernanos, Georges

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

23.

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

Stuart Stevens

24.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

26.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

29.

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

Levant, Oscar

30.

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

31.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

32.

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

Caesar, Julius

33.

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

Allen, Fred A.

34.

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

Baily, Bernard

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

40.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Korean

44.

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

45.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

O'Malley, Austin

49.

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

50.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy