Pride Quotes
Pride the first peer and president of hell.Daniel Defoe
Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea".
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.Dante Alighieri
I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.John Waters
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.Samuel Johnson
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.Democritus
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.Henry Bolingbroke
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man? s values, it has to be earned.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.Clive Staples Lewis
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.William Hutton
Pride sullies the noblest character.Claudianus
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.Samuel Johnson
There is this paradox in pride - It makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.C. C. Colton
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.Young
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
Be modest It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.Jules Renard
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
But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.Reinhold Niebuh
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.Benjamin Franklin
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.Joe Paterno
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - - Avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.Francesco Petrarch
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.C. C. Colton
Pride, like laudanun 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.Frederick Saunders
By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.Gay
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.Helen Hunt Jackson
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.Edith Sitwell
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.Charles Caleb Colton
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.Charles de Gaulle
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.Johnson
Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.C. S. Lewis, First things First
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.Nancy Lopez
