Pride Quotes

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in.

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'

Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household.

CONFIDENCE BOOSTER: Take pride in the things that make you stand out. Realize that you're better served by being authentic to yourself than by seeking out short-term praise from someone else.

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.

Dont just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.

Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my blood? And who now owns my indecisions, my hands, my private pain, my pride?

I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope to a lot of young blacks.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.

I take pride in just knowing how to do things. Whenever a coach tells me to do something, I always try to do it the way he said or do it to my best ability.

one ingredient of revenge is always pride.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

I look upon pride as a sin.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it be pride or shall it be humility in Jesus Christ?

Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.

I hate people like that...who have no pride in themselves.

Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.

I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do.

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

The people of Southwest have always been my pride, my joy and my love. Their indomitable dedication and esprit de corps have taken Southwest from a three-airplane dream to a 500-airplane reality.

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

I think you always take pride in how you play.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.

They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.

There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.

Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam... These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world.