Pride Quotes

Pride comes before a fall

Pride is the mask we make of our faults

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

It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief

Japanese Proverb

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Samuel Johnson

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

Benjamin Franklin

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Alexander Pope

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

Samuel Johnson

Pride is the shirt of the soul, put on first and put off last

George Swinnock

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

William Blake

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

Paul Bryant

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

John Ruskin

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Gary Ryan Blair

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real

Thomas Merton

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride

Charleszetta Waddles

Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies

Alexander Pope

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

Unknown

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

Samuel Butler

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Hosea Ballou

Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone

Egyptian Proverb

Pride will spit in pride's face.