Pride Quotes

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

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

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

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.

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

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.

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 pride myself on being kind.

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

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.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

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.