Pride Quotes

No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

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.

The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

I'm fully aware that 'Doctor Who' will always, always be part of my life, and that's not something I would run away from in the slightest. I wear it with pride, definitely.

'Tis pride that pulls the country down.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.

I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

In a way, I was incredibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.

He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.

Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.

The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.