If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.
—Muhammad Ali
Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you—and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
—Hesketh Pearson
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
—Edith Sitwell
Instead of bucking your head against a stone wall… sit quietly with hands folded and wait for the wall to crumble. If you're willing to wait an eternity, it may happen in the twinkling of an eye. For walls often give way quicker than the proud spirit which rules us. Don't sit and pray that it will happen! Just sit and watch it happen.
—Henry Miller
Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.
—Ben Franklin
I think that when enough time has passed, when you've survived that which you didn't imagine you could, there's a dignity in that. Something you can own. A pride in knowing the pain made you stronger. The pain made you fight to succeed. Someday, when I'm living my dreams, I'm going to think of all the things that broke my heart and I'm going to be thankful for them.
—Mia Sheridan in Kyland
Quality is pride of workmanship.
—W. Edwards Deming
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
—Jules Renard
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Pride sullies the noblest character.
—Claudianus
The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
—Democritus
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
—Moliere
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
—Stuart Stevens
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country,
but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but
one country and mankind its citizens.
—Bahá'u'lláh