Pride Quotes

• 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

  God, Wisdom, Humility

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

  Julius Caesar

  Ambition, Too Much, Failing

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• Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Modesty, Virtue, Careful

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• Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thinking, Idiot, Isolation

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

  Georges Bernanos

  Order, Excellence, Rise Above

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.224, Da Capo Press

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• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Vanity, Mrs Bennet

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26, Waking Lion Press

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• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Angel, Men

  "Manipulus Florum". Book edited by Thomas Hibernicus,

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• Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Important, World

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• Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

  Thomas Merton

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fake People

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.119, Shambhala Publications

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• Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.

  Francis Quarles

  Men, Giving, Doe

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.31

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• Where pride begins, love ceases.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Cease

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.

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• Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vanity, Dine, Contempt

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.83, The Way to Wealth

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• Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

  Vanna Bonta

  Giving Up, Humility, Dignity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Offended You, Wish, Enmity

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Humility

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

  William Hazlitt

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2096, Delphi Classics

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• Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Communication, Kids, Humility

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• Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Vices

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• If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Would Be, Preaching, Sermons

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• My pride fell with my fortunes.

  William Shakespeare

  Fortune

  William Shakespeare, Juliet Dusinberre (2006). “As You Like It: Third Series”, p.175, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vanity, Hardest, Wounded

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• Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

  Stuart Stevens

  Powerful, Immune System, Narcotics

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• The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

  Democritus

  Age, Youth, Strength And Beauty

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• As soon as there was two there was pride.

  John Donne

  Two

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  All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

  Sophocles

  Mistake, Character, Men

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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