60 Swallow Your Pride Quotes To Inspire You In Love And Life

“The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that if you can’t swallow your pride, you can’t lead.” ― Jack ...

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“But at this moment, for me, family equals safety; Burn equals safety; love equals safety. And if I trust my heart, my instincts, my strength, I know I’ll always be safe.” ― Maureen McGowan

“I learned to swallow my pride. Swallow it and walk away.” ― Chris Lee

“No matter how big your house is, how new your car is, how big your bank account is, our graves will be the same size. Stay humble.”

“Sometimes you have no other choice than jeopardizing your pride to win back the one you love.”

“I could not recall the last time I had been so flagrantly insulted. Don’t make enemies, I told myself. Swallow your pride. Hold your tongue. But the fact was, I had real difficulty with those particular virtues.” ― Jen Crane

“Swallow your pride occasionally, it’s not fattening.” ― Frank Tyger

“It isn’t easy to swallow your pride and go home, but there is a special kind of love for the prodigal one.”

“I’ll swallow my blood before I swallow my pride.” ― Al Capone

“I’m too full to swallow my pride.” ― The Weeknd

“I guess they call it suicide, but I’m to full to swallow my pride I can’t stand losing you. The police dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.” ― Sylvia Plath

“Sometimes you gotta shut up, swallow your pride and accept that you’re wrong. It’s not giving up, it’s called growing up.”

“Swallowing your pride isn’t lethal. It might upset your stomach for a few minutes, but the ultimate result may be the life of your dreams. And that’s a result that’s worth every rejection you encounter.” ― Georgette Mosbacher

“Yet sometimes you just have to sprinkle a dash of sugar on the spoonful of pride and swallow it with a humility chaser.” ― Erica Larsen

“When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.” ― Emily Giffin

“I want a girl that can swallow my pride.” ― Frank Zappa

“Pride is more difficult to subdue than a wild lion. If you can’t swallow your pride, you can’t lead. A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.” ― Genghis Khan

“Apologizing does not always mean that you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means that you value relationship more than your ego.”

“But I encourage you to swallow your pride and hear your friends out, to look at the image of yourself they’re reflecting back to you. It might be useful. It might piss you off.” ― Cheryl Strayed

“Sometimes, you have to eat your words, chew your ego, swallow your pride, and accept that you are wrong. It’s not giving up. It’s called growing up.”

“If you owe someone an apology swallow your pride and give them one. Never let your pride end a friendship or relationship.”

“I’ll never turn her away, Clyde. She’s my mate. I’ll protect her till my dying breath. I’ll even swallow my pride and ask a favor as momentous as the one I just asked of a man who has done nothing but try to drive a wedge between her and myself.” ― J.L. Sheppard

“But why is it so hard to forgive?’ Mrs. Conners asked. ‘Pride,’ Dad said. ‘This person has already wronged you in some way, and now you are the one who has to swallow your pride, give something up, in order to forgive him.” ― Bree Despain

“I swallowed my pride, to save our relation. You swallowed the bound to save pride.”

“Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too.” ― Lorrie Fair

“Pride is tasteless, colorless and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow.”

“If you cannot swallow your pride, you are not thirsty enough for her love.” ― Pierre Jeanty

“Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison.” ― Tombstone Blues, Bob Dylan

“I’ve hurt them but pride is a hard thing to swallow when you feel like it’s all you have left.”

“The mind-closing danger of biased beliefs occurs when we don’t know we hold them. Sometimes we have to swallow our pride and engage in clear-eyed analysis.” ― Paul Pearsall

“Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn’t taste so bad.” ― Brad Moore

“When you swallow your pride, don’t choke on your ego.” ― Frank Sonnenberg

“It’s hard to love someone who loves someone else. You have to ignore the pain and swallow your pride. Just to be a friend.”

“Swallow your pride, you will not die, it’s not poison.” ― Bob Dylan

“If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first.” ― Jon Osborne, Kill Me Once

“I really wish you would just swallow your pride for once and admit that you really do miss me.”

“Swallow your pride but don’t hide behind your ego. Fire me with words what will hurt your self. The anger in your heart, the absence of understanding me. Calm down. This is not a war, lets drop these weapons now! Because we are over this. I raise my flag because I surrender!”

“Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.” ― C. Lewis

“Swallow your pride occasionally, and not to worry, it has zero calories.” ― Narin Grewal

“It’s better to swallow pride than blood.” ―” ― David Bischoff

“No one has ever choked from swallowing their pride.”

“The truth is hard to swallow when you’re choking on your pride.”

“Be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..” ― Jinnul Jr.

“When you swallow that pride, Eve, take care you don’t choke on it.” ― Nora Roberts

“Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.” ― Vanna Bonta

“Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.” ― Huston Smith

“It’s hard to swallow your pride. That’s why I slather mine in mayonnaise.” ― Stephen Colbert

“Please swallow your pride. If I have things you need to borrow. For no one can fill those of your needs. That you won’t let show.” ― Bill Withers

“Pride will always be the longest distance between two people.”

“It is better to lose your pride to the one you love, than to lose the one you love for your pride.”

“If you can’t swallow your pride, you can’t lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.” ― Jack Weatherford

“In love swallow your pride but never your dignity.” ― Carlos Salinas

“Don’t bark your pride, if you can’t swallow your ego.” ― Abhishek Nawar

“It’s funny how you can be friends with someone for years but it can end in a minute because they’re unwilling to swallow their pride.”

“Today you are encouraged to accept your failures. When you are willing to fail miserably, you are able to achieve greatly. Admitting your mistakes and weaknesses doesn’t diminish your strength, it shows your courage and maturity. Sometimes you just need to be quiet, swallow your pride and accept you were wrong. ...

... It is not about giving up, it’s about growing up.” ― John Geiger

“Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it’s the complete anti-God state of mind.”

“Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole.” ― Ray Davies

“And I, will swallow my pride you’re the one that I love, and I’m saying goodbye.”

“Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.” ― Wim Wenders

“When you’ve done something wrong, admit it and be sorry. No one in history has ever choked to death from swallowing his pride.”