Pride Quotes | Sayings Celebrating the Importance of Pride

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

Pain is temporary pride is forever.

The pride you gain, is worth the pain.

It’s okay to lose your pride over someone you love. Don’t lose someone you love over your pride.

Don’t lose someone you love over your pride.

They call it pride. I call it class, because lions never mix with cats.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
– Kahlil Gibran

Fear is a spirit that keeps you sitting, Boldness helps you to stand. Humility reminds us when to sit again, Pride never sits only stands.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
– Robert Fulghum

Pain goes away, pride lasts forever.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
– Ezra Taft Benson

Bruises will heal, blood will fade, but pride will last forever.

Leave your pride behind and firmly stick to your dignity and integrity.

Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.
– Anthony Liccione

Pride destroys most relationships.

If you can’t save the relationship, at least save your pride.

Too much pride is bad for a person, a person without pride is worthless.

Pride comes before the fall. Stay humble.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.
– St. Vincent de Paul

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
– François de La Rochefoucauld

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
– Sophocles

Swallow your pride and everything will be alright.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.
– Criss Jami

I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.
– Julie Benz

Pride is the mother of arrogance.
– Toba Beta

Pride only hurts, it never helps.
– Pulp Fiction

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
– Amy Tan

Before you pride yourself on being a big fish, make sure you’re not swimming in a puddle.

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.
– John C. Maxwell

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

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.
– C.S. Lewis

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man’s error and misery.
– Alexander Pope

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
– John Ruskin

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
– Criss Jami

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.
– Samuel Butler

If you see any thing in yourself which may make you proud, look a little further, and you will find enough to make you humble.
– Wellins Calcott

Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.
– Idowu Koyenikan

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
– Socrates

Do not be proud of your achievements thinking it is the genius in you; even cells have done miracles when we tinkered with their genes.
– Boghos L. Artinian

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
– Ezra Taft Benson

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
– Jane Austen

Don’t spend all of your time trying to FIND yourself. Spend your time CREATING yourself into a person that you’ll be proud of.
– Sonya Parker

Our pride will lead us to perish, but our politeness keeps us alive.
– Sipho P Nkosi

I would always rather be happy than dignified.
– Charlotte Bronte

I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.
– John Green

It’s not just a win or a lose it’s a pride thing.

Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.
– Wallace D. Wattles

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
– Thomas A. Edison

Boys were so proud – you always had to let them think they were good at things.
– Diane Zahler

I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave.
– Veronica Roth

All complaining comes from pride

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

You need to take pride in what God has given you.
– Joel Osteen

We are rarely proud when we are alone.
– Voltaire

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
– Benjamin Franklin

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
– Andrew Murray

Stirred up pride is poison to the soul.
– Evinda Lepins

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
– Alexandre Dumas

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.
– Jorge Luis Borges

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
– Josiah Gilbert Holland.

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others.
– Hugh Blair

When you feel nervous, recall your pride.
– Toba Beta

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
– Art Modell

Walk with your head up everyday like you own this world.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.
– Patrick Rothfuss

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
– Thomas Jefferson

Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be “purchased” at someone else’s expense.
– Andrew Levkoff

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