Pride Quotes - Page 7

• We are a country that prides itself on power and wealth, yet there are millions of children who go hungry every day. It is our responsibility, not only as a nation, but also as individuals, to get involved. So, next time you pass someone on the street who is in need, remember how lucky you are, and don't turn away.

  Lesley Boone

  Country, Children, Responsibility

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• Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

  George Eliot

  Witty, Vanity, Helping

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.581, Xist Publishing

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• I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Pretty Woman, Faces

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.22

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• Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

  Robert Fulghum

  Ignorance, Mixtures, Knows

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.62, Ballantine Books

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• There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

  George Eliot

  Men, Fault Finders, Faults

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• Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Self, Attractive, Magnet

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.72

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• The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

  William Cowper

  Haughtiness, Proud, Provoked

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• Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Vanity, Mind

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.50

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• 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

  Success, Winning, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.146

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• 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

  Hurt, Helping, Middlemarch

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Vices, Haughtiness, Erring

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes [&c.] by G. Croly”, p.66

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• A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

  William Cowper

  Men, Self, Worship

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• In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Romantic, Funny Relationship

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.123

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• She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Giving, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9

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• You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

  Jane Austen

  Silence, Feelings, Wish

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.458, Wordsworth Editions

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• Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

  Tori Amos

  Dream, Hair, Burning

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• I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Boys, Sea

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

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• It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Glasses, Arrogance

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.642

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• O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Book, Doing Nothing

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• There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.

  Joseph Addison

  Passion, Heart, Stealing

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.321

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• If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Done, Proud

  Laurence Sterne (1810). “The Beauties of Sterne: Containing All His Pathetic Tales, His Humorous Descriptions, His Most Distinguished Observations on Life, and a Copious Selection from His Sermons ...”, p.71

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• Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Men, People

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• A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Men, Proud, Shows

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• He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

  Francis Bacon

  Cleanliness

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• It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

  John Ruskin

  Someone You Love, Useless, Loses

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