Pride Quotes

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

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

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.

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

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

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

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

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.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

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.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.