Quotes about 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."

Lewis, C. S. on pride
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"Has God forgotten all I have done for Him."

Louis XIV on pride   

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

Masillon, Jean Baptiste on pride
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"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 on pride   

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold on pride   

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich on pride   

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

O'Malley, Austin on pride   

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

Pope, Alexander on pride   

"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 on pride   

"Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together."

Proverb on pride
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"The nobler the blood the less the pride."

Proverb, Danish on pride   

"Pride is the mask of one's own faults."

Proverb, Jewish on pride   

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

Proverb, Korean on pride   

"You cannot hold your head high with your hand out."

Proverb, Yiddish on pride   

"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes."

Ruskin, John on pride   

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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

Santayana, George on pride   

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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 on pride   

"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 on pride   

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

Sheen, Fulton John on pride   

"Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on pride
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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 on pride
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"Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening."

Tyger, Frank on pride   

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

Unknown, Source on pride   

"Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion"

Unknown, Source on pride   

"Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity."

Unknown, Source on pride
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"Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others."

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"Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there."

Unknown, Source on pride
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"The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great."

Voltaire on pride
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"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

Washington, Booker T. on pride   

"We rise in glory as we sink in pride."

Young, Andrew on pride   

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"Always think highly of yourself and take pride in whatever you do! Cant nobody dictate your future but you"

BPBEE on pride