2,116 Quotes About Pride

The man who loses his goal through fear and the man who loses his through pride should not attract the same level of sympathy from you. ~ Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Pride is like spittle. You can spit it out or swallow it. Pride is like excessive body weight. You can shed it. Do not treat it like body height which you have no power over. Get rid of it before it gets rid of you. ~ Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Pride is always a way of not seeing oneself properly, whereas humility is"self-knowledge perfected.

Love and pride don’t mix.

We all ride on pride of sorts but those who deride it kick it outside with a determined stride.

Who the Devil is bent on destroying he first puffs up with pride, then blinds to reason, and finally deafens to advice – smooth ride to calamity.

Make sure your decency, your humanity, is the last thing you give up.

When she touches him spontaneously, applying a little pressure to his arm, or even reaching to brush a piece of lint off his collar, he feels a rush of pride, and hopes that people are watching them.

Perhaps I was really the guilty one, because I did not know you well enough. I accepted that you did not reveal yourself completely to me, I admired your intelligence and your strange, bitter pride, I wanted to believe that you would forgive me as other people did because of this happy capacity I had to circulate in the world and to be welcomed, while you were only tolerated