Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Pride

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

Caesar, Julius

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

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

Gilbert, W. S.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Baily, Bernard

10.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

11.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Democritus

15.

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

Proverb, Korean

16.

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

Pope, Alexander

17.

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

18.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

19.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

26.

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

27.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

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

Jackson, Jesse

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Stuart Stevens

33.

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

Allen, Fred A.

34.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.