Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Best Quotes about Pride

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

Bible

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

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.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

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

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

10.

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

11.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

12.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

14.

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

Cowper, William

15.

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

Pope, Alexander

16.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

19.

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

Eliot, T. S.

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Eliot, George

22.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

23.

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

Allen, Fred A.

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Levant, Oscar

27.

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

Democritus

28.

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

Stuart Stevens

29.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

30.

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

Caesar, Julius

31.

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

Ali, Muhammad

32.

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

Proverb, Korean

33.

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

Jackson, Jesse

34.

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

35.

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

O'Malley, Austin

36.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

37.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

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

39.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

40.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

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.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

44.

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

Baily, Bernard

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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