Pride Quotes

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
- Joseph Addison

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness, a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
- Josh Billings

What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.
- William Wordsworth

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

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
- George Chapman

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

Pride is an admission of weakness, it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
- Fulton John Sheen

Pride sullies the noblest character.
- Claudianus

What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
- Alexander Pope

Pride proceeds the fall.
- The Bible