Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

Best Quotes about Pride

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Cowper, William

4.

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

5.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Proverb, Jewish

6.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

7.

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

Pope, Alexander

8.

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

Caesar, Julius

9.

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

Eliot, George

10.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

11.

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

12.

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

Bernanos, Georges

13.

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

Bible

14.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

15.

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.

16.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

17.

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

Allen, Fred A.

18.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

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

Democritus

20.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.

Louis XIV

22.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

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

Jackson, Jesse

30.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dean, Dizzy

31.

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

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

Stuart Stevens

34.

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

Proverb, Korean

35.

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

36.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

41.

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

O'Malley, Austin

42.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

43.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

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

45.

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

Levant, Oscar

46.

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

Gilbert, W. S.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Thoreau, Henry David