I love you more than my pride.
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
Pride destroys most relationships.
Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic. @ -Michael Ayrton
A person can break your heart and damage your pride. But never ever give them the power to break your spirit.
It's okay to lose your pride over someone you love. Don't lose someone you love over your pride.
Don't be ashamed if you don't like what others pretend to love. @ -Emma Watson
For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride. @ -Louisa May Alcott
Be proud of who you are, look at all you've overcome to get here.
Lose your pride for your love. But never lose your love just because of your pride.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.  @ -T.S. Eliot
You won't see anything above you as long as you are always looking down on others.
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.
You're not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it. @ -Donna Ball
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood. @ -Stephen King
A person whose only goal is to be important causes the most mess in the world.
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. @ -Jane Austen
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.      @ -C. S. Lewis
Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. @ -John Ruskin
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. @ -Samuel Johnson
Pride comes before a fall.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. @ -Hubert Humphrey
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. @ -Oscar Wilde
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. @ -John Ruskin
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right. @ -Ezra Taft Benson
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance. @ -Bear Grylls
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
Take pride in how far you have come & have faith in how far you can go.  @ -Anil Kumar Sinha
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. @ -Jorge Luis Borges
Receive without pride, let go without attachment. @ -Marcus Aurelius
If you can't save the relationship, at least save your pride.
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. @ -Thomas Jefferson
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. @ -Kahlil Gibran
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears. @ -Henry Cloud
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. @ -Carl Jung
Shame is pride's cloak. @ -William Blake
I won't apologize for who I am.
The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side. @ -Bob Dylan
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence. @ -Johann Kaspar Lavater
Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have. @ -Joyce Meyer
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
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.      @ -C. S. Lewis
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
If we are only alone, we will never be proud.
The pride you gain, is worth the pain.
Pride must be a summer thing, because it comes before the fall. @ -Jarod Kintz
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. @ -Ann Landers
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
It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur. @ -Gilbert Parker
The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride. @ -Benjamin Franklin
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God. @ -Soren Kierkegaard
Pride is the mother of arrogance. @ -Toba Beta
Sometimes what appears to seem like hate or dislike is just pride trying to retain its ego. @ -Terry Mark
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. @ -Voltaire
The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. @ -Pat Conroy
Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you. @ -Andrew Murray
All legendary mistakes always have pride at their tail ends.
Pride makes us long for a solution to things - a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear. @ -Julian Barnes
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. @ -Gary Ryan Blair
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like. @ -Will Rogers
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
Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life. @ -Ezra Taft Benson
Look at yourself in a mirror and tell yourself how proud you are to have come this far.
Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. @ -William Shakespeare
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation. @ -Henry Rollins
Be proud of the things that you had to endure that tried to destroy you but couldn't. @ -Jasmine Upwork
Only you could choose to commit yourself to pride, and you should know that it separates quality from weakness.
Be proud of yourself and your achievement but don't be arrogant remember you may have everything today but nothing lasts forever. @ -Anurag Prakash Ray
Reflect upon your present blessings (of which every man has many) not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. @ -Charles Dickens
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. @ -Eric Hoffer
There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. @ -George Eliot
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. @ -Alexandre Dumas
When you feel nervous, recall your pride. @ -Toba Beta
Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided. @ -Michel de Montaigne
Pride goes before destruction. @ -Aesop
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. @ -George Eliot
As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.      @ -W. Tozer
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. @ -François de La Rochefoucauld
Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself. @ -Tori Amos
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. @ -Fulton J. Sheen
Your ego decides the humanity in you - higher the ego lesser the humanity. @ -Adil Adam Memon
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust. @ -Joseph J. Ellis
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it. @ -Bryce Courtenay
The higher you climb, the heavier you fall.
A proud man only gets satisfied if he is being compared to someone below him. Once the competition dies out, pride will also leave.
Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us. @ -John C. Maxwell
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. @ -Aeschylus
In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. @ -Robert Hunter
One man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than everybody else. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a 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. @ -Henry Ward Beecher
It is easy to tell the toiler/How best he can carry his pack/But no one can rate a burden's weight/Until it has been on his back @ -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
My rule of thumb for hitchhiking is: stick it up straight and proud and make if visible to all drivers. @ -Jarod Kintz
Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain. @ -Bruce Lee
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.      @ -C. S. Lewis
The disguise that hides all our mistakes is pride.
Once you reach the top, take care as the only way left to go is down. @ -Darren Bateman
Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations. @ -Criss Jami
Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage. @ -Terry Pratchett
Pride sullies the noblest character. @ -Claudianus
Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage. @ -Vladimir Odoevsky
Boys were so proud - you always had to let them think they were good at things. @ -Diane Zahler
You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with. @ -Amy Tan
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny. @ -Mark Twain
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. @ -Baruch Spinoza
I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses people of color. @ -Colin Kaepernick
Incapacity is given credibility by feeling self-important.
You've made it so far in life, that's worthy of celebration.
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. @ -George Eliot
When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others. @ -John C. Maxwell
Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned. @ -Jeremy Aldana
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. @ -Benjamin Franklin
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught. @ -Quintilian
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity. @ -John Selden
All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself. @ -Michael Crichton
Fight your own pride and ego and be open-minded and always learning new techniques, new things from anyone. @ -Sam Sheridan
You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride. @ -Charleszetta Waddles
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. @ -William Shakespeare
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
One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated. @ -George Eliot
It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last. @ -François de La Rochefoucauld
Leave your pride behind and firmly stick to your dignity and integrity.
You should train yourself to look down on somebody only when you are helping them up.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up. @ -Jesse Jackson
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us. @ -Charles Caleb Colton
Bruises will heal, blood will fade, but pride will last forever.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. @ -Michel de Montaigne
Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future. @ -Jodi Picoult
Behind every argument lies someone's ignorance. @ -Louis D. Brandeis
The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's. @ -Ezra Taft Benson
We can fool ourselves with pride, but our true self would be whispering to us that there is something very wrong deep inside us.
Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions. @ -John C. Maxwell
Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. @ -St. Vincent de Paul
I would always rather be happy than dignified. @ -Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care. @ -Ernest Hemingway
Fight for your dreams, fight for more opportunities, fight for pride, fight for whatever it is that burns inside of you. Make life yours. @ -Anurag Prakash Ray
