Pride Quotes & Sayings
These pride quotes and pride sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection.The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession. - Iris Murdoch
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. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. - Samuel Johnson
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. - Khalil Gibran
When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us. - Charles Caleb Colton
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them. - William Hazlitt
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. - Benjamin Franklin