Pride Quotes

I'll never let you see, the way my broken heart is hurting me, I've got my pride and know how to hide all my sorrow and pain, I'll do my crying in the rain.

We've got a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride and contracts and different things. Now that we are out of the race, guys are playing looser and you can see it in our play.

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.

Pride is a fool's fortress

I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

My husband is a former Air Force pilot and my son is an active duty Army surgeon, recently returned from Iraq, so my pride in our military is passionate... and personal.

I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

Put all our pride away, always find a gentle word to say, you know we shouldn't be full of ourselves when we should be full of humility .

The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud.

All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed.

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.

You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.

The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.

Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

If you let pride stop you, you will hate life

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Before pride waves a white flag, it waves all other colors.

The pride never leads, never submits, and never leaves.

I want a girl that can swallow my pride.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.