Quotes about Pride

Meaningful Quotes about Pride

Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.
Benjamin Franklin

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

In pride, in reas'ning 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

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

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 (Troilus and Cressida)

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 is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton J. Sheen

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night

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

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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


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

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
Author: Isaac Bickerstaff

Pride sullies the noblest character.
Claudianus

Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
William Knox

Pride proceeds the fall
The Bible
 

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