Pride Quotes
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.
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.
The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.
The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud.
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.
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.
Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.
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.
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.
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.
The greatest joy I get is setting up plays for somebody else. I take a lot of pride in helping other people make plays.
Let not young souls be smothered out Before they do quaint deeds And fully flaunt their pride.
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.
Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
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.
Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.
Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.
My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.
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There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.
Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.
Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.
The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.
I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.
You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.
Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.
Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.
When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.
Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.
A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.
St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
You need to take pride in what God has given you.