Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

4.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

6.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

7.

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

Allen, Fred A.

8.

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

Stuart Stevens

9.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

10.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

13.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

17.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

18.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

19.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

22.

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

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23.

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

24.

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

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25.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

26.

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

Proverb

27.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

28.

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

29.

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

Baily, Bernard

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

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

34.

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

Eliot, T. S.

35.

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

36.

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

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37.

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

Jackson, Jesse

38.

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

Cowper, William

39.

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

Eliot, George

40.

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

Levant, Oscar

41.

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

42.

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

Allen, Fred A.

43.

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

Proverb, Korean

44.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

46.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

48.

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

Ali, Muhammad

49.

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

50.

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]

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