Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Sheen, Fulton John

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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.

2.

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

Caesar, Julius

3.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

4.

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

Democritus

5.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

6.

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

Pope, Alexander

7.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

8.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

O'Malley, Austin

16.

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

Cowper, William

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Allen, Fred A.

19.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

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

Baily, Bernard

21.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

22.

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

Eliot, George

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Stuart Stevens

31.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

32.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

33.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

34.

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

35.

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

Bernanos, Georges

36.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

37.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

38.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

39.

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

Eliot, T. S.

40.

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

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Allen, Fred A.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Levant, Oscar

46.

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

47.

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

Ali, Muhammad

48.

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

49.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

50.

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

Thoreau, Henry David