40 Quotes About Pride to Remind You to Always Be Humble

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Many people struggle with pride. Sometimes, they let their pride block their path to success and happiness. This can cause problems in relationships, at work, and in life. Quotes about pride help us see the dangers of being too proud and remind us of the need for humility.

These quotes about pride also teach us the importance of being humble. They help us recognize our strengths without feeling better than others. By thinking about these quotes, we can learn to appreciate what we have while staying respectful and grounded. This is important for personal growth and understanding.

In this article, we have selected some of the best quotes about pride. These powerful words will remind us to always be humble and appreciate other people around us.

1. "If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition." - Julius Caesar

2. "Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot." - Gilbert K. Chesterton

3. "Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important." - T. S. Eliot

4. "Where pride begins, love ceases." - Johann Kaspar Lavater

5. "Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real." - Thomas Merton

6. "Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity." - Vanna Bonta

7. "Pride eradicates all vices but itself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. "Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power." - William Hazlitt

9. "The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion." - Democritus

10. "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." - Khalil Gibran

11. "The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance." - Samuel Butler

12. "With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings." - Ezra Taft Benson

13. "Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times." - Huston Smith

14. "Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity." - John Selden

15. "Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you." - Andrew Murray

16. "Pride is both a virtue and a vice." - Theodore Parker

17. "Pride, the first peer and president of Hell." - Daniel Defoe

18. "Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself." - Baruch Spinoza

19. "Pride and excess bring disaster for man." - Xunzi

20. "In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes." - John Ruskin

1. "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

2. "It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels." - Saint Augustine

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

4. "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

5. "The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul." - George Eliot

6. "Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace." - Petrarch

7. "Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals." - Fulton J. Sheen

8. "Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity." - William Blake

9. "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." - Simone Weil

10. "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

11. "We rise in glory as we sink in pride." - Andrew Young

12. "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

13. "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves." - Emily Bronte

14. "Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying." - Vincent de Paul

15. "In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given." - Robert Hunter

16. "A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance." - Bear Grylls

17. "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

18. "The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self." - Baruch Spinoza

19. "Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire." - William Penn

20. "Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals." - Fulton J. Sheen