Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

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Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

Jackson, Jesse

2.

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

Allen, Fred A.

3.

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

4.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

5.

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

Eliot, T. S.

6.

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

Eliot, George

7.

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

Pope, Alexander

8.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

9.

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

Stuart Stevens

10.

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

11.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

16.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

18.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

26.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

28.

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

Ali, Muhammad

29.

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

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

Proverb, Korean

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

34.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

35.

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

Democritus

36.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

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

Baily, Bernard

38.

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

39.

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

O'Malley, Austin

40.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

42.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

43.

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

Caesar, Julius

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Bible

46.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

47.

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

Bernanos, Georges

48.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

49.

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

50.

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

Levant, Oscar