Pride Quotes

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

John Waters

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Daniel Defoe

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely - Read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction

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

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

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

Anonymous

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Reinhold Niebuh