Pride Quotes

Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance. (Jonathan Swift)
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. View quote
Steve Jobs
Extreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. View quote
Jane Austen
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. View quote
Norman Mailer
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. View quote
Giorgos Seferis
I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy. View quote
Zhu Rongji
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. (Horace Mann)
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. View quote
Petrarch
And nothing to look backward to with pride, And nothing to look forward to with hope. View quote
Robert Frost
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. View quote
John Ruskin
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. View quote
Emil Cioran
Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. View quote
Alain-René Lesage
Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. View quote
Michael Jackson
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. View quote
Jane Austen
Such is the prestige of the Nobel award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practiced it through the ages. View quote
John Steinbeck
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! (William Blake)
One may be humble out of pride. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars. View quote
William Wordsworth
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image. View quote
Charles Dickens
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. View quote
Augustine of Hippo