Pride Quotes

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.

I leave with sadness, but also with pride.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Cast out pride and vanity; have no thought of trying to rule over others or of outdoing them.

I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated.

Some people are proud of their humility.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.

Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.

Step into a new you each day. Reach out to greater health, happiness, fitness, friendship, love and greater pride in yourself.

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.

It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

Sunlight will renew your pride.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

Shame is pride's cloak.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

He had risked his freedom and his pride to buy her this, to acknowledge that part of her that everyone else seemed to want to get rid of.

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

Some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.