Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- O'Malley, Austin

Best Quotes about Pride

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

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

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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 costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Baily, Bernard

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

10.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

11.

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

Democritus

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

Bible

14.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Stuart Stevens

16.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

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

Eliot, T. S.

18.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

22.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

Jackson, Jesse

25.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

30.

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

31.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

32.

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

Ali, Muhammad

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Levant, Oscar

37.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

38.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Korean

45.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

46.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.