Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Pride

Be free of both pride in success and shame in failure.

Whatever you are proud of will also pass; hold it lightly.

Pride is a weight; humility is a light load.

Stubbornness is pride that has stopped listening.

Being good can become a pride; hold your goodness gently.

Pride grows when we forget how much we have been given.

Pride and show make an empty house.

Understanding causes cuts through both pride and despair.

Pride is a narrow window.

Pride and delusion close the door to refuge.

Lay down pride and delusion, and the road grows light.

Pride in what you have makes you smaller than what you have.

Arrogance is fear in a loud costume.

Free of the doer’s pride, you carry no residue.

Pride loves dramatic refusals; wisdom prefers honest choices.

Dishonour hurts the honourable most.

Pride that refuses counsel walks toward its own loss.

Ask whether your refusal serves you or only your pride.

Status is a thin reason for a heavy action.

Put down pride before it becomes a habit.

Honour and insult are weather; you are the sky.

Let success make you grateful, not proud.

Be steady whether praised or blamed.

Good deeds can bind too, when done for credit.

Wonder asks; pride pretends to know.

Stay steady in cold and heat, praise and blame.

Humility asks; arrogance assumes.

Your good qualities are borrowed from something larger; stay humble.

Fame and infamy are also weather; do not live in either.

Let your brightness come from your character, not your tricks.

Whatever is excellent in you or others is borrowed light.

Let radiance humble you rather than blind you.

Repairing a friendship is worth swallowing your pride.

Stop comparing; the sacred is beyond comparison.

Humble love sees more than learned pride.

Be the same in honour and in insult.

Stop building identities from praise and slights.

Do not build your self-image on defeating others.

Giving for show is a transaction in disguise.

Discipline done for admiration is fragile.

A wise mind carries neither pride in the good nor guilt over the bad.

Do not measure yourself by the crowd; measure by your sincerity.

Brilliance can humble us if we let it.

Before the vast, rank dissolves.

No title protects anyone from the passing of time.

Remember how brief fame is against the length of time.

Do not measure your worth by your religious achievements.

Honour and dishonour are both borrowed clothes.

Anger and arrogance weigh down the one who carries them.

Ask what you need to prove, and to whom.

Comparing yourself upward or downward is the same mistake.

Extreme practices driven by pride are not practice but show.

Self-denial for show is a form of ego.

Offering for applause feeds the ego more than the heart.

Respect earned by show vanishes with the show.

Ostentation tires the performer.

Admiration is weather; steadiness is climate.

Pride of authorship is the first weight of any work.

Honour and insult are weather; the mind need not storm.

When praise and blame weigh the same, you are free.

Do not forget who the giver is when you get what you wished for.

A steady heart is not shaken by praise or blame of results.

No quality is only yours; thank the source.

Put down your resume before the sacred.

Do not use holiness as a ladder.

Praise and blame are only sounds; let them pass.

A boast of victory is a thin armour.

Feeling like the master of everything is a sign you have stopped listening.

Do the good, then let go of the credit.

Drop ego, force, and pride; what remains is peace.

Let go of pride, not of your questions.

Praise and blame are borrowed opinions; don't mortgage yourself to either.

The one who is satisfied within is never hungry for applause.

Equal in praise and blame, you are no longer pushed around.

Genius is a gift on loan.

Self-doubt can hide inside boasting.

Humility opens the door that pride keeps locked.

Humility is knowing there is always something higher.

When ego drives, effort becomes strain.

A resolve born of ego is soon undone by life.

Ego claims the credit that circumstances deserve.

Ego is the obstacle that grows when you refuse help.

Let gratitude, not pride, answer another’s devotion.

Stubbornness dresses itself as strength.

Refusing your duty out of pride only delays it.

Let the sting of insult teach you what you value.

A mind that flattery cannot sway, insult cannot steer.

Ask for help before pride makes it costly.

Don’t confuse stubbornness with loyalty to yourself.

Notice when ambition starts to feed on envy.

Not every success is worth its quick applause.