Quotes about Pride

Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

Appearance - Character - Disguise - Endeavor - Pride - Real

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Jesse Jackson

Civil Rights Activist, Clergyman, Politician

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Character - Compassion - Ethics - Generosity - Help - Indulgence - Inspiration - Judging - Kindness - Life - Pride - Respect - Rude

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

Enemy - Fame - Happiness - Indulgence - Making - Malice - Man - Neglect - Neutrality - Power - Pride - Quiet - Satisfaction

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Pema Chodron

Designer, Clergyman, Nun

Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness. It's there bubbling along all the time. We experience it as restlessness and edginess. We experience it as fear. It motivates passion, aggression, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, but we never get down to the essence of it.

Aggression - Buddhism - Essence - Ignorance - Mindset - Movement - Ordinary - Passion - Pride - Suffering - Talk

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George Eliot

Critic, Author, Novelist

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

Honor - Playing - Pride - Thinking - Wellness

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William Faulkner

Writer

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

Anguish - Art - Book - Honor - Mother - Pride - Ruthless - Security - Writing

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.

Age - Army - Destroying - Gains - Human - Possession - Pride - Tasks - Useless - Wit

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Charlotte Bronte

Novelist, Poet

Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it - I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup.

Comfort - Farewell - Gentleness - Kindness - Loneliness - Path - Pride - Taste - Waste - Wellness

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

Credibility - Flattery - Intoxication - Pride

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

Curiosity - Ignorance - Interest - Pride - Wishing

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John C. Maxwell

Scientist, Clergyman, Author

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

Arrogance - Conceit - Kindness - Leadership - Oneself - Pride - Sin

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Writer, Poet

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Age - Passion - Pride - Vigor

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Director, Philosopher, Philosopher

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Pride - Vanity

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Laozi

Philosopher

He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

Honor - Pride - Wealth

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Honore de Balzac

Artist, Novelist, Novelist

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

Man - Pride - Talent

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Baruch Spinoza

Philosopher

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Man - Pleasure - Pride - Thinking

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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of Love except the name? Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain, and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion. Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal: it has no interest in a disloyal companion. The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God: that root must be cherished with all one's might.

Companion - Flight - Human - Interest - Life - Loyalty - Meaning - Persuasion - Pride

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H. P. Lovecraft

Writer, Novelist, Author

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.

Colors - Failing - Monster - Pride

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Alain de Botton

Philosopher, Author

Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the oppo site: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as "mushy.

Certainty - Facts - Giving - Idealism - Lie - Pride - Stoicism

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