Pride Quotes

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

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

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)

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

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

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

Benjamin Franklin

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