Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Pride

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

Bible

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

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

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

Proverb, Korean

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Proverb

10.

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

Baily, Bernard

11.

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

12.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

13.

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

O'Malley, Austin

14.

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

15.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

16.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

17.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Bernanos, Georges

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

21.

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

22.

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

Levant, Oscar

23.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

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

25.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

26.

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

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

29.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

30.

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.

31.

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

Eliot, T. S.

32.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

33.

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

34.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

35.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

Stuart Stevens

38.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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

Allen, Fred A.

42.

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

Democritus

43.

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

Cowper, William

44.

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

45.

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

Eliot, George

46.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

47.

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

Pope, Alexander

48.

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