(1574 quotes found)
“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”
Mark Twain
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.”
C.S. Lewis
“Vanity is the polite mask of pride.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
Voltaire
“Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.”
Proverb
“A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground”
Spanish Proverb
“Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.”
Fulton J. Sheen
“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.”
Joe Paterno
“The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.”
Blaise Pascal