Pride Quotes and Sayings

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

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

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

The proud hate pride - in others.

Pride is the mask of one’s own faults.

Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

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

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.

You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven’t a chance.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
- Democritus

Pride sullies the noblest character.

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

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.

It is a beggar’s pride that he is not a thief.

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

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

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