Quotes on Pride

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Author: Aeschylus

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

Author: Francesca Annis

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Author: Joanna Baillie

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.

Author: Elizabeth Barton

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

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

We take pride in what we do.

Author: Coolio

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Author: Thomas Fuller

Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.

Author: Maurice Gibb

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Author: Eric Hoffer

I look upon pride as a sin.

Author: Tommy Jones

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Author: Nancy Lopez

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

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

Author: Dan O'Brien

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Author: William Shakespeare

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

Author: Janet Street-Porter

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.

Author: Margaret Truman

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Author: Voltaire

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

Author: William Wordsworth