Hard Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“In reality, there is perhaps not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as our pride.”

— Jeff Wheeler

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

— Mark Twain

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.

— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

All pride is willing pride.

— William Shakespeare

It is possible to become so prideful and haughty that a person doesn't even recognize his or her own pride.

— Craig Williams

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

— Samuel Johnson

Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment.

— Wilbur L. Creech

All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable…

— John Ruskin

There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.

— Joseph Addison

Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

— Elizabeth Carter

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

— Friedrich August von Hayek