Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

2.

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

3.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

4.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

5.

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

Ali, Muhammad

6.

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

Eliot, T. S.

7.

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

Pope, Alexander

8.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

9.

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

Democritus

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Korean

17.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

19.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Allen, Fred A.

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

24.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Jackson, Jesse

27.

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

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

32.

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

33.

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

Baily, Bernard

34.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

35.

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

36.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

38.

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

39.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

40.

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

Cowper, William

41.

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

Eliot, George

42.

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

43.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

44.

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

45.

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

Allen, Fred A.

46.

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

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.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

49.

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

Caesar, Julius

50.

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

Bernanos, Georges