Quotes about pride

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.
- Criss Jami

There are actually two kinds of pride, the good pride that is our dignity and the bad pride that is all ignorance.

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
- Ben Jonson

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold
- Thomas Jefferson

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.
- George Takei

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
- Stephen King

Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness, pride in our own deserts. Nothing is so likely to keep a man out of heaven, and prevent him seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something, we shall never be saved.
- J. C. Ryle

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
- Bryce Courtenay

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
- Moliere

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

You would never be contented of anything if you let pride rule you, only through having more of it could you move forward.

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
- Joe Paterno

Take pride in how far you have come & have faith in how far you can go.
- Dr. Anil Kumar Sinha

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- Henry Ward Beecher

There is difference in pride and vanity. Pride is when you think too highly of yourself, while vanity wants others to think highly of you.

Winning is not about accolades and medals, it's about holding your head high even thou you are the last in line.
- Hermann J Steinherr

The beauty of standing up for your rights is others see you standing and stand up as well.
- Cassandra Duffy

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
- William Hazlitt

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.
- Jane Austen

Promise and then perform.

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
- William Shakespeare