Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

Pope, Alexander

2.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

3.

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

4.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

5.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

6.

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

Jackson, Jesse

7.

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

8.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

9.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Levant, Oscar

11.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

12.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

13.

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

14.

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

Stuart Stevens

15.

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

Caesar, Julius

16.

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

17.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

20.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

21.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

22.

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

Democritus

23.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

24.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

25.

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

Cowper, William

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

O'Malley, Austin

29.

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

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

32.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

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

Allen, Fred A.

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Bernanos, Georges

37.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Baily, Bernard