Pride Quotes

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.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

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.

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.

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

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.