Pride Quotes

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

John Ruskin

He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise

William Shakespeare

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Fred A. Allen

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Joseph Priestley, All About Ours

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Henry Bolingbroke

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

John Green

But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,--even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone conneced her with that humanity, of which her wasting life had obliterated so many, many traces when a very child.

Charles Dickens

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. [] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.

C.S. Lewis

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Proverb

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

Proverb

It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.

George Eliot

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Stephen King

They take their pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little

Henry David Thoreau

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Danish proverb

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.

Paul Keating

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.

Carl Gustav Jung

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Jesse Jackson

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Jane Austen