Pride Quotes

• If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Pride
  • Blind
  • Deliverance

• The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Family
  • Christian

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

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Giving
  • Pride
  • Generosity

• Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Feeling
  • Pride
  • Conquests

• Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Great
  • Family
  • Done

• I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Pride
  • Lion

• I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

  

  Leighton Meester
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Girly

• I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Great
  • Emotions
  • Cartoons

• The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Pride
  • Use
  • Politician

• Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • True
  • Attention
  • Humility

• 'When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.'

  

  Len Deighton
  • Men
  • War
  • Pride

• There is a pride in speaking this language.

  

  Bernard Pivot
  • Pride

• I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.

  

  Leslie Moonves
  • Good
  • Great
  • Success

• You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Power
  • Compassion
  • Humility

• Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.

  

  Michelangelo
  • People
  • Conversation
  • Painters

• Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.

  

  Arthur Schnitzler
  • Pride
  • Favor
  • Benefactor

• I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

  

  John Lasseter
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• The first, the very first; oh! noneCan feel again as they have done;In love, in war, in pride, in allThe planets of life's coronal,However beautiful or bright,-What can be like their first sweet light?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Life
  • Done
  • War

• Jenny, all my life I have wanted to do miracles. I have wanted to be holy. I suppose it was ambition or pride or some other unworthy thing. It was not enough for me to conquer the world--I wanted to conquer heaven too.

  

  T. H. White
  • Life
  • World
  • Heaven

• Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Trying
  • Abandon
  • Creeps

• People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

  

  Harper Lee
  • People
  • Pride

• The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Learning
  • Prayer
  • Humility

• The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness, beauty and dignity, and to describe how the incessant efforts and accumulated genius of many generations have built up that magnificent monument, the object of our most legitimate pride as men, and of our wonder, humility and thankfulness, as individuals. The study of the history of mathematics will not make better mathematicians but gentler ones, it will enrich their minds, mellow their hearts, and bring out their finer qualities.

  

  George Sarton
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I don't know if people consciously get in the way of their own success. In fairness, people have a lot of pride, and they fall back on what they know to be safe and correct. Anybody, including me, struggles with change.

  

  Marcus Lemonis
  • People
  • Success
  • Fall

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