Pride Quotes

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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

Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

C. S. Lewis, First things First

The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - It is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook - It holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.

C. C. Colton

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Benjamin Franklin

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

Samuel Johnson

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

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Joe Paterno

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Ernest Hemingway, "The Old Man and the Sea".

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

George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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

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

John Waters

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

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

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Young

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

Johnson

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

Reinhold Niebuh

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

Jules Renard

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

Anonymous

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

Dante Alighieri

Pride, like laudanun 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.

Frederick Saunders

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Edith Sitwell

There is this paradox in pride - It makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

C. C. Colton

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles Caleb Colton

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - - Avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Francesco Petrarch

Pride, envy, avarice - - These are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.

Alighieri Dante

Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus

By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.

Gay

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

Jules Renard

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man? s values, it has to be earned.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

Charles de Gaulle