Abstract Quote by William Hazlitt

What is modesty but inverted pride?

— Chinua Achebe

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

— Henry Ford

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

— William Hazlitt

Unbalanced pride is often a false friend, and is ruinous for egomaniacs who can't see beyond their choices of expressing art.

— Martin Dansky

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

— Paul Henderson

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

— Adam Clarke

Why are people always more attracted to the wemon or men that are wrong for them

— Tyrone Burks

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

— Thomas More

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Pride makes us unapproachable. (...) But if a person possesses a realistic assessment of who she is, whence she's come, and where her place…

— Dennis Okholm

If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.

— Anonymous

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