Quotes about pride are expressions that capture the concept of feeling self-respect and satisfaction in oneself or one's achievements. These quotes often convey the idea of taking pride in one's work, accomplishments, or personal identity. They serve as reminders to value oneself and to hold oneself with dignity and confidence. Quotes about pride can inspire individuals to celebrate their uniqueness and embrace their strengths, encouraging them to have a positive outlook on life.
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. — Adam Clarke
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. — John Ruskin
If your pride leads you to boast,
you will be doubly guilty,
because your intelligence will have shown
that it is incapable of controlling your pride. — Ibn Hazm
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right. — Ezra Taft Benson
Short Pride Quotes
I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time. — Sayings
Put aside your pride,
Set down your arrogance,
And remember your grave. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom. — African Proverbs
Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks. — Charlemagne
Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying. — Vincent de Paul
Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant. — Hamza Yusuf
If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition. — Julius Caesar
Sitting with the poor and less fortunate people removes the ego and pride from your heart. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. — William Blake
Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you. — Andrew Murray
Pride Image Quotes
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
There is no shame in falling down but there is pride in getting back up. — Lilly Singh
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. — Kahlil Gibran
If you are filled with pride then you'll have no room for wisdom.
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is. — John Chrysostom
I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am. — James McAvoy
Don't worry about your pride, worry about your principles.
Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.
Too Much Pride Quotes
They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects. — Jane Austen
We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger. — Charlie Dent
Beware of pride because you will be returning to the earth and your body will be eaten up by the worms.
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
The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional. — Kevin Garnett
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy — Benjamin Franklin
Be proud but never be satisfied.
With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are. — Criss Jami
The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it. — Gustave Flaubert
God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it. — Derwin L. Gray
Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent. — Luc De Clapiers
Ego And Pride Quotes
The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride. — Stephen Covey
Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction. — Marion Woodman
You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God. — Brian Weiss
Pride makes for the most slippery shoes.
I will go through a lot of pain to beat someone. If there's pride and ego on the line, if I'm desperate, then I'm willing to go to a place where it hurts a lot more. — Shalane Flanagan
Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated. — Sathya Sai Baba
I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead. — Ray Kroc
For years I took pride in being resilient, but that turned me into this guy who can get hit by a brick bat every morning and still look kind of cute.
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man. — Philip K. Dick
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
You're going to make mistakes. The key is to learn from them as fast as possible and make changes as soon as you can. That's not always easy to do because ego and pride get in the way, but you have to put all that aside and look at the big picture. — Tiger Woods
Pride that you express to other people is probably ego. Pride that you express silently to yourself is real pride. Pride of self is understanding that life is glorious, and that it 's an honor to be here. — Stuart Wilde
Swallow Your Pride Quotes
If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it. — Jack Weatherford
When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance. — Emily Giffin
Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion — Unknown
It's hard to swallow your pride. That's why I slather mine in mayonnaise. — Stephen Colbert
It's a weird feeling more than anything. You kind of have to swallow your pride a little bit, realize we won the game, be excited about it. We get to go back to D.C. — Clayton Kershaw
Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening. — Frank Tyger
Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues — Bob Dylan
Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego. — Yolanda Hadid
Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too. — Lorrie Fair
In love swallow your pride but never your dignity. — Carlos Salinas
Positive Pride Quotes
Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak. — Roger Federer
It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride. — Helen Mirren
As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all. — Barbara Smoker
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. — Kurt Vonnegut
Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It's a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person. — Ivanka Trump
Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions. — Ed Seykota
Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment. — J. Oswald Sanders
Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life — Paulo Coelho
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. — James Russell Lowell
Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him. — C. J. Mahaney
Happy Pride Quotes
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The easiest way to create happiness in people who love you is by making them feel proud of you through your success. — Mahatria Ra
close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere — Paulo Coelho
I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy. — William Habington
Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man. — John Galt
When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy. — Pope Francis
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others — Samuel Johnson
I would always rather be happy than dignified. — Charlotte Bronte
How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue. — Jane Austen
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. — Charles Caleb Colton
My Pride Quotes
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained a lot of young people, and I've learned my lessons well. I'd like to keep the flame burning. — Phil Woods
I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention. — Madam C. J. Walker
Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody. — Whitney M. Young
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am. — Anais Nin
People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics. — Martha Gellhorn
Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent. — Diego Rivera
On the eve of this great adventure I send my best wishes to every soldier in the Allied team.
To us is given the honour of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history; and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings. — Bernard Law Montgomery
I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money. — Joe Louis
To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride. — George Soros
Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers. — Watchman Nee
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that. — Mother Teresa
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. — Margaret Thatcher
The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. When you do that, you have dignity. You have the pride. You can walk about with character and pride no matter in what place you happen to finish. — Billy Mills
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. — Randa Abdel-Fattah
Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others. — Bill W.
So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me. — Tim Cook
...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability. — George S. Patton
Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride. — Richard J. Foster
One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face. — Ezra Taft Benson
National Pride Quotes
Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race. — Benito Mussolini
Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met — Doug Stanhope
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? — Theodore Bikel
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. — William Golding
Between China and the Pacific is the archipelago that is poisoning China’s relations with its neighbors. National pride means China wants to control the passageways through the chain; geopolitics dictates that it has to. — Tim Marshall
Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. — Lester B. Pearson
Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU. — Steve Blake
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. — Bahá'u'lláh
A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past. — Joseph Howe
If you want freedom, take pride in your country. If you want democracy, hold on to your sovereignty. And if you want peace, love your nation. The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots. The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations. — Donald Trump
Personal Pride Quotes
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984 — Cesar Chavez
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility. — Jonathan Edwards
I take a lot of personal pride and motivation to be able to make a difference in areas that may fall through the cracks in R&D across the industry. — Vivek Ramaswamy
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. — Mary Antin
It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person. — John Bunyan
He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass. — Shang Yang
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment. — Dale Carnegie
Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't. — Mike Ditka
A modest little person, with much to be modest about. — Winston Churchill
Take pride in yourself. Be your own person. — Jack Lambert
Pride And Humility Quotes
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. — Thomas Merton
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil. — Andrew Murray
It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are. — Wei Wu Wei
Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced. — Joseph Hall
An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues. — John Climacus
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness. — William Arthur Ward
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. — C. S. Lewis
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. — Michel de Montaigne
When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride. — Isaac Watts
As long as you are proud, you cannot know God. — C. S. Lewis
Gay Pride Quotes
We’re sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes. — Pete Wentz
Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage. — Judy Davis
There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved. — Boy George
If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal. — Fran Lebowitz
I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am. — Jai Rodriguez
My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence. — Jai Rodriguez
When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You leave the darkness of the closet and begin a life of honesty, authenticity and freedom. — Anthony Venn-Brown
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender. — Hendrik Hertzberg
Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes. — Alfred Kinsey
We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history. — John E. Jones III
Pride And Arrogance Quotes
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation. — Nouman Ali Khan
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride. — Samuel Richardson
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
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. — Samuel Butler
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us. — Charles Stanley
Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are. — Paulo Coelho
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. — Joseph Addison
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
It is our own arrogance and pride that cause pain. The more that we think that we can do anything, the less we realize our complete dependence on God, and the worse the pain becomes. — Reshad Feild
Black Pride Quotes
I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation. — Gil Scott-Heron
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. — David Foster Wallace
It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts. — Anne Bradstreet
There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria. — Binyavanga Wainaina
I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope to a lot of young blacks. — O. J. Simpson
Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride. — Boris Kodjoe
Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves. Thus blacks asserted black pride and 'black is beautiful;' women declared 'I am woman, I am strong'; men are saying 'I am man, I am okay.' After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that's not a bad start. — Warren Farrell
We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that. — James Earl Jones
When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person. — W. Kamau Bell
There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride. — Arrigo Sacchi
Proud Person Quotes
Before his downfall a person’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor. — Bible Proverbs
I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes. — Shirley Jackson
ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPERIENCES IN LIFE IS ACHIEVING PERSONAL GOALS THAT OTHERS SAID WOULD BE, 'IMPOSSIBLE TO ATTAIN.' BE PROUD OF YOUR SUCCESS AND SHARE YOUR STORY WITH OTHERS. — Robert Cheeke
The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous. — Brooke Shields
Life taught me that the thing you want to do, but you're scared to do because of people's opinions, is also the thing that you must do. Everything that I'm most proud of started with fear and ended with happiness. — Steven Bartlett
I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god. — Ville Valo
That thing you’re putting off? Go get it! Future you is going to be so proud. — Steven Bartlett
I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now. — Steve McNair
The reward of child rearing is spending the rest of your life proudly knowing this person you helped guide. Let him be himself. — Mike Sager
Make your influence a good one.
Act in a way you would be proud of even if the whole world was watching, because your example could mean the world to just one person. — Lindsey Stirling
False Pride Quotes
False humility is more insulting than open pride! — Brandon Mull
The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within. — Kabir
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning. — Anne-Marie Slaughter
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans. — Jane Addams
There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills. — Douglas Hurd
A false modesty is the meanest species of pride. — Edward Gibbon
What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power. — Sylvia Thompson
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage. — Mahatma Gandhi
It's okay to lose your pride over someone you love. Don't lose someone you love though over your pride! — Fabolous
In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the ego. I say refuse citizenship. In the land of "I dont know," the inhabitants move without conflict and are naturally quiet, happy and peaceful. The wise stay here. — Mooji
We live in a highly competitive world - and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even if there is also a need for a certain amount of national pride. When it comes down to it, we have managed our country's economy poorly for long enough. There is really no reason to now think that we can conquer the world. — Ratan Tata
Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism. — Omar N. Bradley
Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it. — Bob Goff
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment. — Nikola Tesla
Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness. — Blaise Pascal
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. — Pablo Neruda
Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you. — Morgan Freeman
Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers. — Genghis Khan
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. — Ephrem the Syrian
One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's. — George Balanchine
In Conclusion
Such quotes can also highlight the importance of balancing pride with humility. They remind us to take pride in our accomplishments without becoming arrogant or boastful. These quotes encourage individuals to acknowledge and appreciate their own worth and abilities, while also promoting the value of treating others with respect and recognizing their achievements. By emphasizing the significance of pride in a balanced and inclusive way, these quotes can inspire individuals to strive for personal growth and contribute positively to the world around them.
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