Pride Quotes
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.
An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.
In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.
Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.
Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.
I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.
Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take pride in our accomplishment, and we find ourselves back at square one.
Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.
Cupcakes - when you want to watch your weight, but still feel the pride that comes with eating an entire cake.
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 manhood.
He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.
Its too hard to make a Lion Angry... He really doesn't care what others do around him... but if you do hurt His PRIDE... He wont let you live another Day
You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.
Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.
When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.
The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.
Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.