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Pride Quotes
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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. (Quote by - Petrarch)
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. (Quote by - James Madison)
I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband. (Quote by - Julie Benz)
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
Pride is the mask of one's own faults. (Quote by - Jewish Proverb)
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is. (Quote by - John Chrysostom)
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. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. (Quote by - William Penn)
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. (Quote by - Joe Paterno)
There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)