Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

2.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

3.

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

Pope, Alexander

4.

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

5.

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

Bible

6.

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

Eliot, George

7.

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

8.

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

Levant, Oscar

9.

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

10.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

12.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

13.

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

Cowper, William

14.

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

Democritus

15.

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

Ali, Muhammad

16.

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

Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

21.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

O'Malley, Austin

25.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

26.

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

Bible

27.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

28.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Stuart Stevens

31.

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

32.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

34.

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

Allen, Fred A.

35.

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

36.

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

Caesar, Julius

37.

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

Bernanos, Georges

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

40.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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.

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

Eliot, T. S.

43.

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

Allen, Fred A.

44.

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.

45.

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