Pride Quotes
Pride the first peer and president of hell.Daniel Defoe
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.Johnson
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.Democritus
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
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
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
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.Dante Alighieri
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990
Pride, envy, avarice - - These are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.Alighieri Dante
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
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
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.Henry Bolingbroke
Pride sullies the noblest character.Claudianus
Be modest It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.Jules Renard
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
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
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.Robert Cecil
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.Charles Caleb Colton
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.Kahlil Gibran
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)
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.Reinhold Niebuh
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.Joe Paterno
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
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.William Hutton
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
I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.John Waters
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
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.Young
There is this paradox in pride - It makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.C. C. Colton
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
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
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
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 timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a.Samuel Johnson
