Pride Quotes

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

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

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.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

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.

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.

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

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

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism.

But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.

The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.

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.

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

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.