Pride Quotes

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, - His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies

Alexander Pope

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of

Benjamin Franklin

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Benjamin Franklin

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Jules Renard

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

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Hosea Ballou

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Blaise Pascal

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees.

Jean Paul Richter

The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.

Samuel Butler

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

Bill Clinton

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others.

Hugh Blair