Top 100 Proud Pride Quotes
#1. Pride sits in all our hearts by nature. We are born proud. Pride makes us rest satisfied with ourselves, thinking we are good enough as we are. It closes our ears against all advice, refuses the gospel of Christ and turns every one to his own way.
J.C. Ryle
#2. Silvers don't mind pain, but we are proud. Pride, dignity, honor; those are things no ability can replace.
Victoria Aveyard
#3. Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.
Price Pritchett
#4. Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
Charles Caleb Colton
#5. It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.
Manasa Rao
#6. There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.
P.D. James
#7. How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.
Robert Moment
#8. Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.
J.C. Ryle
#9. You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#10. My road thus far has not been an easy one, George, but it has been my own and I am proud of what I have accomplished.
C.J. Hill
#11. God refuses only the person who does not admit his own weakness; He sends away only the unhappy proud person. You must "hold him" well and strongly, with a poor spirit, with a poor heart, with a life entirely poor ...
Raphael Kalinowski
#12. In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.
John Piper
#13. You stiff-necked fool," he muttered, "too proud to listen. Can you eat pride, Stark? Will honor shield your children?
George R R Martin
#14. As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.
C.S. Lewis
#15. Scripture said that "pride goes before fall". Just let pride go alone. Don't go in its company, else fall pursues both of you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#16. For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?
Kahlil Gibran
#17. Never wear pride as the jersey of your dreams. You will miss the goal and lose your dreams if you put on pride!
Israelmore Ayivor
#18. There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
Publilius Syrus
#19. I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: How clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.
Janwillem Van De Wetering
#20. Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#21. All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride ...
William James
#22. The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.
Ezra Taft Benson
#23. Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
William Shenstone
#24. Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for "pride", allow it to go as a lone ranger!
Israelmore Ayivor
#25. I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride.
Alexandre Dumas
#26. It's better to lose our pride to the one You Love, than to lose the one we love, because of our pride.
Jan Jansen
#27. I really don't listen to anyone that I'm not proud of saying that I listen to. Even if it's something a little bit more unexpected, I didn't get too deep into the Waka, Gucci records, but I like those with pride.
Solange Knowles
#28. It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful.
Damon Throop
#29. With a strength I can be proud of, I live only for myself, and only die for myself. I'll never die for someone, cause I know the pain of who remains alive, this is my pride.
Kazuya Minekura
#30. Your Nationality or any other Affiliation isn't written on your forehead or any visible part of your body. It is shown by the way you Pride Yourself.
Joan Ambu
#31. If we want to be proud of our country, if we want to be proud as Americans, if we want to be proud of our history, then we can't talk about the things that are inconsistent with pride, about which we can have no pride.
Bryan Stevenson
#32. Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.
Augustine Of Hippo
#33. Instead of being proud that you led someone to God, be more concerned with the person you pushed away from Him.
Donna Lynn Hope
#34. There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.
Joyce Meyer
#35. I respect you far too much to think that empty pride is the only motivator you could call on. I think what you call pride is something much more than that. Belief in yourselves, perhaps, or perseverance in the face of adversity. Those are things to be proud of. That's not the same as being proud.
Jack Campbell
#36. The dictionary defines pride as "pleasure or satisfaction in one's work or achievement." According to that definition a person needs to do something before you can be proud of them. You could not be proud of them simply for who they are. I'm not sure I know what pride in another person feels like.
Francisco X Stork
#37. I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.
Tao Lin
#38. I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.
Johann Lamont
#40. Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#41. While many people are proud of being self-made, it only explains all the flaws.
Ron Brackin
#42. Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
E.F. Benson
#43. If you have not seen the real end of the journey, don't boast much at the beginning and never be too proud and haughty in mid of the path. Keep the real end in mind and mind how to get to the real end successfully!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#44. Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;
So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
Alexander Pope
#45. Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.
Ian Hislop
#46. If I love a dose of (good) theology or philosophy, I probably also love discipline, improvement, wisdom, and challenges. If I hate it, I am probably too comfortable and proud to try to question myself.
Criss Jami
#47. But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.
Tahir Shah
#48. I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
Carroll O'Connor
#49. On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
Thomas Merton
#50. All the subjects of the world can be included in the kashays of anger-pride-deceit-greed. Anger and deceit are the 'protectors'. They have indeed originated from greed. A proud person will have greed for self-validation and recognition from others. And deceit protects it.
Dada Bhagwan
#51. Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
#52. Pride is a human nature and it's good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything is not healthy. Humble is pride exhibited through humility, so be humble and prideful about being humble.
Uzoma Nnadi
#53. The proud man is forsaken of God.
Plato
#55. Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.
Marcus Aurelius
#56. Confession is not all about telling your bad deeds to the public, but being proud of the bad things you have done so far.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#57. Forget your pride (what have you to be proud of?) and forget your anger (who has done you wrong?) and accept the mercy of these good kings.
C.S. Lewis
#58. I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me
Marie Lu
#60. What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence.
Bernardo Bertolucci
#61. I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.
John Green
#62. A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.
Bruce Lee
#63. He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John Lennon
#64. In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).
Meg Cabot
#66. Lochedus couldn't help feeling a little proud of himself, though he knew pride to be a slippery slope. He felt he was holding his own in the verbal sparring match with Beladona - not an easy thing to do.
Lisa C. Temple
#67. 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
#68. We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Voltaire
#69. Take a second look, you might find that I am stronger. Take a second look, you might find that you are stronger. Imagination, inspiration. It's only fair that I tell you, I plan on leaving here tonight with my pride. I'm proud to be I'm proud to be me.
Sara Quin
#70. I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.
Abbas Kiarostami
#71. It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential.
[check for wording] Proper pride says, "I'm good at this." Improper pride says, "I'm better than you.
James A. Owen
#72. The pleached bower,
Where honeysuckles ripened by the sun
Forbid the sun to enter, like favorites
Made proud by princes, that advance their pride
Against that power that bred it.
William Shakespeare
#73. Magnus knelt first. Clary would never have guessed that. Magnus was so proud, but then it was a pride that transcended the emptiness of gestures. She doubted it would shame him to kneel when it meant nothing to him.
Cassandra Clare
#74. The Lord does not show Himself to a proud soul. The proud soul, no matter how many books it reads, will never know God, since by its pride it does not give place for the grace of the Holy Spirit, while God is known only by the humble soul.
Silouan The Athonite
#75. Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.
Criss Jami
#76. God Himself heals the proud. This means that inner sorrows (by which pride is healed) are sent to us by God, for the proud man will not suffer anything from others. But the humble person will endure everything, and will always say, 'I deserve this.'
Ambrose Of Optina
#78. Looking over the beach and the ocean as the sun begins to drop down in the west, a strange sense of pride: pride in all I've done and lived through, proud to think of the thousands of people I've met and known and the few I've loved.
William Boyd
#79. 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
#80. But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.
Robert A. Heinlein
#81. My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.
Ayn Rand
#82. Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.
Sophocles
#83. If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
Will Durant
#84. I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.
Danny Pino
#85. Don't be proud-you don't have anything
Zarina Bibi
#86. It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.
Jean De La Bruyere
#88. When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.
Honore De Balzac
#89. While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.
D.H. Lawrence
#90. The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.
Ethel Mumford
#91. Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that's the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.
Joyce Carol Oates
#92. Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted.
Graham Greene
#93. We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.
Juan Luis Guerra
#94. God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.
Mansur Al-Hallaj
#95. A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
Henry Ford
#96. 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
#97. Acting so obviously submissive to Max around strangers, I felt a lot of humiliation. The looks from people, the comments. But I also felt this strange sense of pride. I am his possession, his property. And I'm proud of that. I'm proud of how happy I make him.
Willow Madison
#98. He was proud of her, he admired her, and at that moment he was conscious of life as something good and he fell in love with her all over again. This consciousness of love took the form of a deep patience inhabiting him, rather than a feeling of cheer or even hope
Michael Stein
#100. You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
Jules Verne
