Today we have 38 best pride quotes collected from different places in our collection. These pride quotes will help you boost self-esteem and build confidence.
Pride Quotes :
- “What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.” ~William Wordsworth
- “The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.” ~George Santayana
- “Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.” ~Joe Paterno
- “Pride had rather out of the way than go behind.” ~Thomas Fuller
- “Pride proceeds the fall.” ~The Bible
- “How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer’s pride.” ~William Blake
- “Pride is an admission of weakness, it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.” ~Fulton J. Sheen
- “Pride sullies the noblest character.” ~Claudianus
- “Vain was the chief’s, the sage’s pride! They had no poet, and they died.” ~Horace
- “The nobler the blood the less the pride.”
Quotes About Pride :
- “Tis not the belly’s hunger that costs so much, but its pride.” ~Seneca
- “In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.” ~John Ruskin
- “Never pride yourself on knowledge. Remember, even a head of iceberg lettuce knows more than you do. It knows whether or not that light really does go out when the refrigerator door shuts.”
- “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
- “Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.” ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- “And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.” ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.” ~William Blake
- “Shame is pride’s cloak.” ~William Blake
- “He will not enter hell who hath faith equal to a mustard seed in his heart; and he will not enter Paradise who hath a single grain of pride, equal to a mustard seed, in his heart.” ~Muhammad Ali
- “Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.” ~Benjamin Franklin
Self Pride Quotes :
- “Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.” ~Jules Renard
- “Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.” ~Benjamin Franklin
- “There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich.” ~French Proverb
- “Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.” ~Paul Bryant
- “Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.” ~George Chapman
- “Let your pride pardon what your nature needs, the salutary censure of a friend.”
- “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” ~Kahlil Gibran
- “They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.” ~Robert Burton
- “Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor.” ~Proverb
- “Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages.” ~Samuel Johnson
Pride Quotes In English :
- “My family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.” ~William S. Gilbert
- “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.” ~Bible
- “One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness, a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.” ~Josh Billings
- “What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.” ~Alexander Pope
- “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” ~Joseph Addison
- “I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier, I brought him up to be my pride and joy, Who dares to put a musket to his shoulder, To kill some other mother’s boy.”
- “Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.” ~Josiah G. Holland
- “This transformation in kids – from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream – is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God …” ~William Saroyan
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