Pride Quotes

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion.

The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent conquering Earls, the golden helmeted suns!

Tonight, we can say with pride that, in America, there is no barrier too great and no ceiling too high to break.

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.

Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

I take pride in taking the hard road and prove to people I earned it.

Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

The thing that attracted me to my husband was his pride. I'll never forget the first time I saw him, standing up on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze - and he too proud to run and get it.

The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.

...love him enough to give him this, even if it's at the price of your pride." (Annette to Cat)

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

There is definitely a sense of pride to it - it's more precious when you cook something up from the beginning and you see it all the way to the end, and you get a little bit more of a say.

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape.

Without a doubt, there's huge satisfaction when a relatively smaller nation can take on a bigger nation and defeat them. There's a lot of pride in that.

This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war)

I'm not here to promote your pride.

Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.

Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

[Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

Pride - Lord of human kind

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.

Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.

I came to feel how far above All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, All earthly pleasure, all imagined good, Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss.

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

Only the #‎ gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.

From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.