Appearance Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave…

— Joanna Baillie

“The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The prideful man qualifies himself by what people think of him, always looking for applause. There is another proud man; head bloodied by the…

— Lee Goff

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

— Abu Bakr

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his…

— Stephen King

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

— Bear Grylls

Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.

— Albert Pike

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

— Jane Austen

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

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

— Samuel Johnson