Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

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Best Quotes about Pride

1.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Eliot, T. S.

6.

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

7.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

9.

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

Allen, Fred A.

10.

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.

11.

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

Allen, Fred A.

12.

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

Bernanos, Georges

13.

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

Cowper, William

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

21.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

22.

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

Proverb, Korean

23.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

24.

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

25.

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

Caesar, Julius

26.

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

Democritus

27.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

O'Malley, Austin

34.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

35.

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

36.

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

Jackson, Jesse

37.

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

38.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

39.

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

Baily, Bernard

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stuart Stevens

43.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

44.

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

Bible

45.

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