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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
- Fuller, Thomas
Pride Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Pride

1.
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
Cowper, William

2.
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
Levant, Oscar

3.
The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
Allen, Fred A.

4.
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

5.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Sheen, Fulton John

6.
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
Bernanos, Georges

7.
You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.
Proverb, Yiddish

8.
Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
Proverb, Korean

9.
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

10.
The nobler the blood the less the pride.
Proverb, Danish

11.
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Franklin, Benjamin

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.
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

14.
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
Eliot, George

15.
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
Pope, Alexander

16.
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

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

20.
Whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.
Bible

21.
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

22.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
Franklin, Benjamin

23.
Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.
Tyger, Frank

24.
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

25.
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

26.
God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble [James 4:6]
Bible

27.
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

28.
We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame.

29.
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

30.
Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Proverb, Jewish

31.
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
Allen, Fred A.

32.
I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!
Ali, Muhammad

33.
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
Colton, Charles Caleb

34.
Pride sullies the noblest character.
Claudianus

35.
I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. [Luke 16:3]
Bible

36.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
Eliot, T. S.

37.
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Caesar, Julius

38.
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
Jefferson, Thomas

39.
To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
Masillon, Jean Baptiste

40.
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
Stuart Stevens

41.
Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

42.
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
Baily, Bernard

43.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
Voltaire

44.
Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
Fuller, Thomas

45.
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

46.
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

47.
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
O'Malley, Austin

48.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.

49.
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

50.
Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.
Proverb


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