Pride Quotes

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.

Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

We tend to blame the physical media for most of our implementation difficulties; for the media are not "ours" in the way the ideas are, and our pride colors our judgement.

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

I feel a great sense of pride and joy knowing that I played a part in bringing into the world more beauty and excitement.

Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and that they did it.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Heresie is the school of pride.

Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

I take pride in being the same person.

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

the best of all good friends is pride.

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

That's what I take pride in in my stand-up, is changing things up. Being special.

Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.

A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don't feel that way. I feel like it's another medium to reach a broader audience.

Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives you a great sense of pride afterwards.

They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant

The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in international affairs.

The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

Pride is the great enemy of unity

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.