Pride Quotes

I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out - do work out a lot.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

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 infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

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.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.