Motivational Quotes

Pride

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Pride

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Gilbert, W. S.

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

10.

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

11.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

15.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

16.

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

Jackson, Jesse

17.

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

Stuart Stevens

18.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Tyger, Frank

20.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Bernanos, Georges

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

Allen, Fred A.

26.

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

Allen, Fred A.

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

Caesar, Julius

31.

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

Levant, Oscar

32.

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

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

Eliot, George

35.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

36.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.