33 Pride Quotes to Encourage Humility

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Pride is something most people feel every day, whether after a small success or a big achievement. Pride quotes often remind us that this feeling can build confidence and self-worth. Still, too much pride can quietly turn into arrogance, making us forget to listen, learn, and grow with others together.

We need pride because it helps us value ourselves and stay motivated in difficult times. Pride quotes also show that healthy pride can protect our dignity and push us forward. However, they warn that unchecked pride can damage relationships, create distance, and stop us from seeing our own mistakes clearly.

In this article, we have gathered some powerful pride quotes that talk about the positive and negative sides of it. By reading these meaningful quotes, you can reflect on your own attitude and understand how to balance pride with humility.

1. “Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” ― Emily Brontë

2. "For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls." – Antony John

3. "Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility." – Anthony Liccione

4. "It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels." – Augustine of Hippo

5. "Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart." – Julie Garwood

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

7. "Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold." – Thomas Jefferson

8. "The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's." – Ezra Taft Benson

9. "Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious." – Idries Shah

10. "Pride and excess bring disaster for man." – Xun Kuang

11. "The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.” – Criss Jami

12. "Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves." – Carl Jung

13. "Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges." – Rick Warren

14. “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

15. “Boys were so proud - you always had to let them think they were good at things.” ― Diane Zahler

16. “Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.” ― Joseph J. Ellis

17. “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man...It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.” ― C.S. Lewis

18. "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

19. “Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.” ― George Eliot

20. “He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.” ― Stephen King

21. “When you feel nervous, recall your pride.” ― Toba Beta

22. “Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.” ― Jorge Luis Borges

23. “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.” ― Michel de Montaigne

24. “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

25. “Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.” ― Henry Cloud

26. “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

27. “Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.” ― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

28. “Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned.” ― Jeremy Aldana

29. “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

30. “Too many people spend money they earned… to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.” ― Will Rogers

31. “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” ― Jane Austen

32. “We are rarely proud when we are alone.” ― Voltaire

33. “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre