Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

2.

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

3.

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

Bible

4.

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

Bible

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

8.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

9.

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

Caesar, Julius

10.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

11.

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

Ali, Muhammad

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Allen, Fred A.

14.

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

Baily, Bernard

15.

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

16.

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

Jackson, Jesse

17.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

19.

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

20.

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

Levant, Oscar

21.

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

22.

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.

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.

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

O'Malley, Austin

25.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

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

27.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

28.

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

29.

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

Bernanos, Georges

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, Korean

32.

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

33.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

34.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

35.

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

36.

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

Cowper, William

37.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

Eliot, George

40.

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

41.

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

Democritus

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

45.

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

Pope, Alexander

46.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.