Too Much Pride Quotes:

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life, Fear, Failure, Inspirational Death, Stanford University

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.58, Criss Jami

topic: Pride, Men, Too Much, Too Much Pride

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

- Bear Bryant

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Football, American Football

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Jealous, Pride, Degradation, Too Much Pride

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

- Julius Caesar

topic: Ambition, Pride, Too Much, Too Much Pride

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100

topic: Beautiful, Sex, Loss, Undeserving, Guarded

'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.

- Naveen Jain

topic: Pride, Self, Water, Commendable, Too Much Pride

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

- Jane Austen

topic: Knowing, Attention, Too Much, Pride And Prejudice Pride, Too Much Pride

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin (1836). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.100

topic: Poor Richard, Fine Things, Too Much Pride

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

- Gustave Flaubert

topic: Art, Pride, Giving, Excessive Pride, Too Much Pride

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

- George Eliot

topic: Religious, Pride, Men, Religious Views, Too Much Pride

Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, `Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?'

- Paul Giamatti

topic: Too Much Pride