Pride - Quotes

A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance. - Bear Grylls

A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities. - Jeremy Aldana

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. - C.S. Lewis

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. - Margaret Thatcher

If you see anything in yourself which may make you proud, look a little further, and you will find enough to make you humble. - Wellins Calcott

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

It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. - Georges Bernanos

It's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation. - Henry Rollins

It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts. - Anne Bradstreet

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions. - John C. Maxwell

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. - George Chapman

Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride – not vanity, but dignity and self-respect – should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide. - Price Pritchett

No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat. - Charles Stanley

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgment, and misguide the mind; What the weak head with strongest bias rules, – is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. - Alexander Pope

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. - Josh Billings

Pride ... is sometimes virtuous and sometimes vicious, according to the character in which it is found, and the object to which it is directed. - Fluke Greville

Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed – pride will soon come down. - J.C. Ryle

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. - Thomas Jeffeson

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us. - John C. Maxwell

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone. - C.S. Lewis

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. - George Eliot

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity. - Unknown

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

Pride is as loud a beggar as want and a great deal more saucy. - Ben Franklin

Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great show and appearance of humility. - Matthew Henry

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. - Baruch Spinoza

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

Pride is tasteless, colorless, and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow. - August B. Black

Pride is the mother of arrogance.  - Toba Beta

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher

Pride sullies the noblest character. - Claudius

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. - Emily Bronte

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. - Voltaire

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‘Good pride’ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‘Bad pride’ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance. - John C. Maxwell

There is a paradox in pride – it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. - Charles Caleb Colton

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. - M. C. Collins

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. - C.G. Jung

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

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace. - Philip Yancey

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others. - John C. Maxwell