Pride Quotes

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit... The Apache nation had pride and look where they are. The bushmen of Kalahari have pride and look where they are.

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics and if that was said as Barney Stinson it would mean a little different thing.

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.

I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

Humility is pride in God.

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.

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!

There's always a sense of pride you take out on the field to play your best every night you go out there. Sometimes your best stinks.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever.

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.

I want to play my best, day in and day out. It's a pride thing for me. I'm going to go out there and dominate the guy I'm playing against every time.

I derive a tremendous amount of pride in developing places that everyday people can experience. I like to create beauty in everyday lives.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Enchancers are my pride, i do everything for them