Pride Quotes

Really, it's only been since the '70s that Canadians have had any pride in their country.

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

Defense is something I take pride in. I feel it's just as important as offense. They should have RBIs for defensive plays.

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

Our infrastructure will again be the best and we will restore the pride in our communities, our nation, and all over the United States we'll be proud again.

You're not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

I pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

I remember taking great pride in making Brad Pitt laugh. I always had a soft spot for him. He's such a sweet, sweet man.

We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.

Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him.

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.

Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Don’t be afraid, John.

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.

It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

It's always weird when I meet people who don't know how to crack crabs open and eat them the right way. I take a lot of pride in my crab-eating ability.

I'd done a pilot [of Townies] with Caroline Rhea [Pride & Joy] that didn't go anywhere.

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.

Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.

Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford.

For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

Beauty,--the fading rainbow's pride.

She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.

Confession is a kind of pride.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.