Pride Quotes

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so there's no reason for anyone to ever come at me because I only want the best for everybody else.

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.

People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities.

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

I take pride in my sports knowledge. I take pride in everything I do. It's part of me.

It makes me sad, sad inside, to see a warrior without his pride.

I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be driven and be nice.

I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.

In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.

I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.

Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.

My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.

Like most, I was a mix of good and bad, anger and protectiveness, kindness and pride. But right now, I had only strangled fear and the promise of revenge.

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

My daughter takes pride in showing up with stuff that other kids envy or are freaked out by, so I send her to school with grilled octopus.

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

Pride is never sinful when it is Justice.

But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.

I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.