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.

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.

2.

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

Democritus

3.

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

4.

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

Jackson, Jesse

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

8.

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

Pope, Alexander

9.

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

Proverb, Korean

10.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

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.

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

16.

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

17.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

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

25.

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

O'Malley, Austin

26.

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

Cowper, William

27.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

32.

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

Bernanos, Georges

33.

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