Motivational Quotes

Pride

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Pride

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

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You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bible

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Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Korean

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Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Cowper, William

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

Bible

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

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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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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

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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

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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.

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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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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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Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

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Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

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

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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