Pride Quotes

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

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

Jules Renard

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

Benjamin Franklin

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

Henry Louis Mencken

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

C. C. Colton

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

Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.

Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)