“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” ― Emily Brontë. Here are 41 Best Pride Quotes.
Pride Quotes
1. “Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.” ― Jorge Luis Borges
2. “Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride, and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back, and taught me how to be a better person.” ― Naveen Jain
3. “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, Pride, and Prejudice
4. “Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.” ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
5. “A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.” ―Bear Grylls
6. “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
7. “Boys were so proud – you always had to let them think they were good at things.” ― Diane Zahler, The Thirteenth Princess
8. “How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child. ” ― Jacinda Ardern
9. “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.” ― Michel de Montaigne
10. “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, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
Pride Quotes
11. “I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can’t cricket, hockey, football, and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen. ” ― Abhishek Bachchan
12. “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
13. “The tyrant is a child of Pride/Who drinks from his sickening cup/Recklessness and vanity,/Until from his high crest headlong/He plummets to the dust of hope.” ― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
14. “The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage. ” ― John Mackey
15. “Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.” ― Will Rogers
16. “The devil…the powder spirit…cannot endure to be mocked.” ― Thomas Moore
17. “Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. ” ―Charles Spurgeon
18. “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, Mere Christianity
19. “Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned.” ― Jeremy Aldana
20. “If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. ” ― Bear Bryant
Pride Quotes
21. “You’re not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.” ― Donna Ball, A Year on Ladybug Farm
22. “Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride! ” ― Bad Bunny
23. “There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.” ― Quintilian
24. “The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.” ― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
25. “Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. ” ― Thomas Merton
26. “Part of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous. ” ―Jordan Peterson
27. “Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.” ― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
28. “With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. ” ― Ezra Taft Benson
29. “It’s good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted. ” ― Sam Hunt
30. “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, The Maze Maker
Pride Quotes
31. “I love hard work. ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows. ” ― James Corden
32. “I take a lot of pride in being myself. I’m comfortable with who I am. ” ― James McAvoy
33. “Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.” ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer
34. “The key to nature’s therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There’s amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted – but that’s not your act of creation, it’s your act of joining in.” ― Victoria Coren Mitchell
35. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. ” ― Colin Kaepernick
36. “The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. ” ―Samuel Butler
37. “It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ” ― Saint Augustine
38. “When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations, and pride of everyone who built it. ” ― Hugh Newell Jacobsen
39. “We rise in glory as we sink in pride. – Andrew Young
40. “Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. ” ― Bear Bryant
41. “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