Pride Quotes

You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.

~ George R.r. Martin

Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.

~ Jon Foreman

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

~ Blaise Pascal

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

~ Rudyard Kipling

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

~ William Golding

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.

~ Michel De Montaigne

You need to take pride in what God has given you.

~ Joel Osteen

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

~ Leo Tolstoy

In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).

~ Meg Cabot

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once.I said I don't want to talk about it.

~ Tamora Pierce

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

~ Michael Crichton

Rowan considered for a moment, and then said, I have known many kings in my life, Dorian Havilliard. And it was a rare man indeed who asked for help when he needed it, who would put aside pride.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

~ Judith Mcnaught

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

~ Paul David Tripp

The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

~ Bernard Cornwell

And metaphors like cats behind your smile,Each one wound up to purr,each one a pride,Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

~ Ray Bradbury

Boys were so proud - you always had to let them think they were good at things.

~ Diane Zahler

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!

~ Lloyd Alexander

Fits of anger, vexation,and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset at seeing that it is imperfect.

~ Francis De Sales

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

~ Abigail Tarttelin

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

~ Marcus Garvey

Pride is the mother of arrogance.

~ Toba Beta

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

~ George Eliot

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

~ Thomas Jefferson

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much, but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

~ Charley Pride

The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

~ A.w. Tozer

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

~ William Shakespeare

Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbors more! He'd have to—you'd not grant anyone else something you can't have for yourself—no love, no kindness, no respect!

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

it is madness in al women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart, and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.

~ Hope Mirrlees

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, I shall win!--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me.

~ Toba Beta

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

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I am incapable of mediocrity.

~ Serge Gainsbourg

He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if he enjoys it, he naturally wants to receive it. And if he wants to receive it, he cannot help but being distraught at losing it. Those who are in love with applause have their spirits starved not only when they are blamed off-hand, but even when they fail to be constantly praised.

~ John Chrysostom