Motivational Quotes

Pride

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Pride

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

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.

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

Democritus

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

Levant, Oscar

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

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

10.

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

11.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

13.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

Pope, Alexander

16.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

17.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

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.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

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

Caesar, Julius

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Baily, Bernard

29.

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

Allen, Fred A.

30.

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

31.

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

Cowper, William

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Stuart Stevens

34.

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

Jackson, Jesse

35.

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

Ali, Muhammad

36.

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

Proverb, Korean

37.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

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

Eliot, T. S.

40.

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

41.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

42.

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

43.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

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

Bible

45.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

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

Proverb

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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

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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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich