Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Masillon, Jean Baptiste

Best Quotes about Pride

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

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

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

Levant, Oscar

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

Cowper, William

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

Sheen, Fulton John

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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

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

Stuart Stevens

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

Proverb, Korean

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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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]

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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

20.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

21.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

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

Caesar, Julius

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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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Democritus

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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

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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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You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

O'Malley, Austin

35.

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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Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

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Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

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

42.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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