Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

Best Quotes about Pride

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

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

Pope, Alexander

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Proverb

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ali, Muhammad

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.

10.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

11.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

12.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

13.

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

Bible

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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

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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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Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

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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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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

27.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

28.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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

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Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

31.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

33.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

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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

35.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Democritus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Korean

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

O'Malley, Austin

43.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Levant, Oscar

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

Caesar, Julius

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