Pride Quotes

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

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".

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.

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

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

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

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

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

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.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

We neither of us perform to strangers.

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

I'm not too vain - I sometimes take pride in my appearance, but I stick to the rule never to spend longer than a girl getting ready.

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.

Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

Ive been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.

I love hard work. One Man, Two Guvnors was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.