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

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

Proverb, Korean

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

Cowper, William

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bible

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Democritus

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Eliot, George

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Levant, Oscar

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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

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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

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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

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

20.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

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You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

22.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

23.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

24.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Stuart Stevens

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

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Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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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

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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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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

40.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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

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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

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Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

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

Baily, Bernard

46.

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

Bible

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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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Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

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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