Motivational Quotes

Pride

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

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Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

Eliot, T. S.

2.

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

Levant, Oscar

3.

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

Allen, Fred A.

4.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

5.

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

Democritus

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

10.

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

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

13.

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste

14.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

Eliot, George

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

22.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

O'Malley, Austin

24.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

Baily, Bernard

27.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

28.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

30.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

31.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

32.

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

Caesar, Julius

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

39.

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

Proverb, Korean

40.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.