Thoughts of Famous Pride Quotes in English Images

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

John C. Maxwell

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you

C.S. Lewis

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

- Michel de Montaigne

Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.

- Michael Ayrton

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

C.S. Lewis

Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage.

Vladimir Odoevsky

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

When the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell.

Andrew Murray

Pride Sayings List in English

Pride must be a summer thing, because it comes before the fall.

Jarod Kintz Quotation

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

- John Ruskin

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

A Quotation From Charlotte Brontë

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

- Robert Fulghum

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

- Rudyard Kipling

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

- Pride Quotes by Terry Pratchett

We ought to be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame.

Charles Mackay

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

- Joseph J. Ellis

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Emily Bronte

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Thomas Jefferson

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

You’re not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.

- Donna Ball

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

- Rita Mae Brown

Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Proverbs

Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.

Jesse Jackson

Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.

- Jason Collins

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

Baruch Spinoza

Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

Ezra Taft Benson

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.

Anthony Liccione

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

Charles Ofori Akrofi

I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit.

Jane Austen

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

- Quintilian

When you feel nervous, recall your pride.

- Toba Beta

Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.

Rick Warren

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

Benjamin Franklin

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

St. Vincent de Paul

Conceit is God’s gift to little men.

Bruce Barton

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Voltaire

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Thomas Fuller

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Andrew Young

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The higher you climb, the heavier you fall.

Vietnamese

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

Thomas F. Shubnell

Behind every argument lies someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

Pride is the mother of arrogance.

Toba Beta

Once you reach the top, take care as the only way left to go is down.

- Darren Bateman

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

- Bible

Pride Thought in English

One man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than everybody else.

- Benjamin Franklin

I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You're not scared. You're an asshole.

- Morgan Freeman

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

Amy Tan

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

Fulton J. Sheen

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so

Georges Bernanos

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

Ezra Taft Benson

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

- Douglas Wilson

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

- Pat Conroy

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

- George Eliot

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

Khalil Gibran

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

- Ellen Page

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

C.S. Lewis

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

Robert Hunter

I think being gay is a blessing, and it's something I am thankful for every single day.

- Anderson Cooper

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Ann Landers

Your ego decides the humanity in you - higher the ego lesser the humanity....

Adil Adam Memon

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

T. S. Eliot

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

St. Augustine

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

George Eliot

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

Proverbs

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.

John Selden

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Michel de Montaigne

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

- Alexandre Dumas

Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Jane Austen

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

- Katerina Stoykova Klemer

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

- William Shakespeare

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

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One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

George Eliot

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Blaise Pascal

And I will break the pride of your strength and make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

Leviticus

Boys were so proud - you always had to let them think they were good at things.

- Diane Zahler

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

- Author Ernest J. Gaines

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

Shannon L. Alder

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

- Jules Renard Download or Share

Pride sullies the noblest character.

- Claudianus Download or Share

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

- Kahlil Gibran Download or Share

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

- Democritus Download or Share

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

- Stuart Stevens Download or Share

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

D.L. Moody Download or Share

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

- Jane Austen Download or Share

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

- Andrew Murray Download or Share

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

Michael Bassey Johnson Download or Share *

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

- Samuel Johnson Download or Share

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater Download or Share

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

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Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

John C. Maxwell Download or Share

Pride Quotation in English

When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.

- Barack Obama

I've been embraced by a new community. That's what happens when youre finally honest about who you are; you find others like you.

- Chaz Bono

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

- Henry Cloud

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Jorge Luis Borges

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

Bear Grylls

Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned.

- Jeremy Aldana

My rule of thumb for hitchhiking is: stick it up straight and proud and make if visible to all drivers.

- Jarod Kintz

If a proud man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is that he keeps his at the same time.

Jonathan Swift

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.

- Moliere

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.

- Dale Carnegie

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Sophocles

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

Fred Allen

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

- George Takei

It takes some intelligence and insight to figure out you're gay and then a tremendous amount of balls to live it and live it proudly.

- Jason Bateman

It was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the completely anti-God state of mind.

C.S. Lewis

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

- Portia DeRossi

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

John C. Maxwell

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

- Pride Quotes by William Hutton

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts not to hurt others.

- George Eliot

Pride Quotes List

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

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

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

Will Rogers

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

- Julian Barnes

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Criss Jami

If you see any thing in yourself which may make you proud, look a little further, and you will find enough to make you humble.

Wellins Calcott

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

- C.S. Lewis

Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

Michael Bassey Johnson

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

John Ruskin

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Bryce Courtenay

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others.

George Eliot

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

- Hubert Humphrey

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

- Michael Crichton

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

- Tori Amos

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Ezra Taft Benson

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

Philip Yancey

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

Shannon L. Alder

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Joyce Meyer

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of emotion, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

Dale Carnegie

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

Criss Jami

Do not be taken in or flattered by your own success or fame. Take note only as to whether or not the old creation, including everything which comes by birth, has gone through the cross.

Watchman Nee

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

Henry Rollins

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Jane Austen

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Benjamin Franklin

In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Alexander Pope

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 Jung

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 Coltoz

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

John C. Maxwell

Pride makes us long for a solution to things - a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

Julian Barnes,Flaubert's Parrot

It is more often from 'pride' than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

Franois de la Rochefoucauld

Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbors more! He'd have to--you'd not grant anyone else something you can't have for yourself--no love, no kindness, no respect!

Mary Ann Shaffer

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

William Shakespeare

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

A.W. Tozer

Pride is a devastating sin and is complex. Most sins turn us away from God, but pride directly attacks God. It lifts us above and against God, seeking to dethrone Him by enthroning ourselves.

Joel Beeke