2,116 Quotes About Pride

Pride is not a virtue and neither is an overwhelming sense of entitlement. The idea of the "tyranny of privilege" would be that people don't want to give up an advantage even when it becomes ethically irresponsible.

The knowledge of the purpose of the success that you receive by grace in every area will keep us from pride and the love of money

Disappointments are healthy for us. They tame egos, deflate pride, and soften hearts while cultivating respect for the struggles experienced by all humanity.

People who enroll themselves in the schools of pride, eventually graduate with and high degree of fall. Failure employs “prides” scholars. Get rusticated now!

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.

When we fail, our pride supports us, and when we succeed it betrays us.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.