Motivational Quotes

Pride

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

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Best Quotes about Pride

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

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

Caesar, Julius

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Cowper, William

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 that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

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

16.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

17.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

20.

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

21.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Proverb, Korean

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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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Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

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Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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

32.

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

Bible

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

Gilbert, W. S.

36.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

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

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

Bible

44.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

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Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.