Quotes about pride
A collection of quotes on the topic of pride, doing, people, other.
Quotes about pride
“Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol. 72, p. 39

Letter to the Monk Guibert, 1176

My Inventions (1919)
Context: While I have not lost faith in its potentialities, my views have changed since. War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only though annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations. What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife. No league or parliamentary act of any kind will ever prevent such a calamity. These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.

ibid
Other

“I take pride as the king of illiterature.”
Very Ape.
Song lyrics, In Utero (1993)

“Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.”

“I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;”
Source: 100 Love Sonnets

1910's, Futurist Speech to the English' (1910)

Letter to Deborah Hatheway (1741), in Letters and Personal Writings (1998), edited by George S. Claghorn, Vol. 16.
Source: A Soldier's Story (1951), p. x.

“Pride, Envy, and Avarice are
the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.”
Canto VI, lines 74–75 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

Chelsea FC, Doctorate Honoris Causa degree award (23 March 2009)

Reported in Q Magazine interview - Jan 2015

Quoted in: Keith Stern (2013), Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals. p. 460
In a Interview With Shirley K. Cohen http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/32/1/OH_Patterson.pdf

Remark made at Kremlin New Year's Eve reception, December 31, 1956. Quoted in Khrushchev by Edward Crankshaw. ISBN 9781448205059

Address to the UK on the 75th anniversary of VE Day, which occurred during the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, 08/05/2020 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-queen-ve-day-speech-read-full-a9506226.html.

Source: "Playing Iron Man was hard and I dug deep: Robert Downey Jr" https://www.hindustantimes.com/hollywood/playing-iron-man-was-hard-and-i-dug-deep-robert-downey-jr/story-OOv6pvyDb8ojxc1r78g89K.html (13 December 2020)

“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
Pt. 1, ch. 10
Miss Maudie
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Source: 1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”

Source: Bleach, Volume 01

“Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.”

Source: The Gay Science

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential


“Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.”

Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 616
Sunni Hadith
Variant: Abu Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Part of the excellence of a person's Islam is his leaving alone what does not concern him."

“Pride and Vanity have built more Hospitals than all the Virtues together.”
"An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 294
The Fable of the Bees (1714)

Originates in a 2007 blog post by Iain S. Thomas entitled The Fur http://www.iwrotethisforyou.me/2007/08/fur.html
Misattributed

“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
Humilitas homines sanctis angelis similes facit, et superbia ex angelis demones facit.
As quoted in Manipulus Florum (c. 1306), edited by Thomas Hibernicus, Superbia i cum uariis; also in Best Thoughts Of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and Arranged as a Key to unlock the Literature of All Ages (1904) edited by Hialmer Day Gould and Edward Louis Hessenmueller
Disputed

1850s, Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1859)

As quoted in What Is the Sangha?: The Nature of Spritual Community (2001) by Sangharakshita, p. 136.

“Hear oh hear, if my prayer be worthy and such as you yourself might whisper to my frenzy. Those I begot (no matter in what bed) did not try to guide me, bereft of sight and sceptre, or sway my grieving with words. Nay behold (ah agony!), in their pride, kings this while by my calamity, they even mock my darkness, impatient of their father's groans. Even to them am I unclean? And does the sire of the gods see it and do naught? Do you at least, my rightful champion, come hither and range all my progeny for punishment. Put on your head this gore-soaked diadem that I tore off with my bloody nails. Spurred by a father's prayers, go against the brothers, go between them, let steel make partnership of blood fly asunder. Queen of Tartarus' pit, grant the wickedness I would fain see.”
Exaudi, si digna precor quaeque ipsa furenti
subiceres. orbum visu regnisque carentem
non regere aut dictis maerentem flectere adorti,
quos genui quocumque toro; quin ecce superbi
—pro dolor!—et nostro jamdudum funere reges
insultant tenebris gemitusque odere paternos.
hisne etiam funestus ego? et videt ista deorum
ignavus genitor? tu saltem debita vindex
huc ades et totos in poenam ordire nepotes.
indue quod madidum tabo diadema cruentis
unguibus abripui, votisque instincta paternis
i media in fratres, generis consortia ferro
dissiliant. da, Tartarei regina barathri,
quod cupiam vidisse nefas.
Source: Thebaid, Book I, Line 73

“Our caravan leader is the pride of the world, Mustafa [Muhammad]”
As quoted in And Muhammad is his Messenger : The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety (1985) by Annemarie Schimmel, p. 215

"Pride and Joy"
Song lyrics

“A dark unfathom'd tide
Of interminable pride —
A mystery, and a dream,
Should my early life seem.”
" Imitation http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/poe/17481", Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827).

1 Cor. 12:27
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p. 415

after Monet's death
Source: Denis Rouart (1972) Claude Monet, p. 22 : About the first steps in his career

One of two draft letters (25 July, 1938) written for Stanley Unwin to select as a response to his German publishers inquiry about his ancestry. The other letter refused to answer altogether on his ancestry; since the quoted letter persists, it seems that the other letter was sent.
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)

Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals (8 March 1983)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)

Memoirs (London: Collins, 1958), pp. 543-544.

Unpublished (and probably unsent) letter to the Providence Journal (13 April 1934), quoted in Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy, edited by J. T. Joshi, pp. 115-116
Non-Fiction, Letters

that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.
Letter to Helen Keller, after she had been accused of plagiarism for one of her early stories (17 March 1903), published in Mark Twain's Letters, Vol. 1 (1917) edited by Albert Bigelow Paine, p. 731

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1846/feb/20/commercial-policy-customs-corn-laws in the House of Commons (20 February 1846).
1840s

2015, Naturalization Ceremony speech (December 2015)

2016, Disabled American Veterans Convention (August 2016)

Second Dialogue; translated by Judith R. Bush, Christopher Kelly, Roger D. Masters
Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques (published 1782)

Speech during the presentation of the new national symbols, October 19, 1978 https://pad.ma/BSI/info.

Responding to Republican criticism of his energy policy (5 August 2008) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0808/05/sitroom.03.html
2008

Letter to Colette, December 28, 1916
1910s

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifi5KkXig3s "Biblical Series IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death"

1910s, Citizenship in a Republic (1910)

Source: Wozu noch Philosophie? [Why still philosophy?] (1963), p. 6

Letter to Elizabeth Toldridge (8 March 1929), in Selected Letters II, 1925-1929 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 316
Non-Fiction, Letters