Pride Quotes

He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride.

Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older ...

It’s not about Al,” I snap. “It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now seeshurling themselves i...

I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave

Why, there's the air, the sky, the morning, the evening, moonlight, my friends, women, the beautiful...

The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Quality is pride of workmanship.

He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz

You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven't a chance.

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's...

O you youths, Western youths,So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,Plain ...

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are poss...

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are poss...

The wretch, concentred all in self,Living, shall forfeit fair renown,And, doubly dying, shall go dow...

Cecelia, as with every look and gesture she let us know, was entirely at ease only in the company of...

You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de...

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people th...

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we...

...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ...

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English ...

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an ind...

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion and does not seek to make converts to it...

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

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses...

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, ...

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in ...

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecesso...

Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I ...

Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the na...

Pride would never be her ally.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How...

There could be something wrong with me because I see Negroes neither better nor worse than any other...

But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because...

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatur...

...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A crimin...

It has been my experience, that women possess little or no pride where love affairs are concerned. P...

In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—takes o...

- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not...

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to recei...

On the Path of the Wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduc...

And this man, who had sailed round Europe and navigated the Great Northern Route, leaned happily ove...

In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, bu...

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's erro...

In pride in reas'ning pride our error lies All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride s...

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, th...

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuat...

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would neve...

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by cou...

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our f...

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the cre...

One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, ...

For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read ...

Their song reminds me of a child’s neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble at th...

Poor Mr. Smith, having been so rudely dragged from his high horse, was never able to mount it again,...

But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you poss...

Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.

I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame....

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt n...

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its mig...

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which he...

I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to ear...

For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must...

We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no ...

The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was ...

Happiness was the responsibility you dreaded, it required the kind of rational discipline you did no...

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing,...

Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.

The proud hate pride - in others.

The war was between the Danes and Wessex. My war was with Odda the Younger, and I knew I was driven ...

The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it ...

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuade...

But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with ...

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

His ability to evoke Celtic pride was incredible. He would always talk about how all the old players...

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

Pride always puts [self] above others—and cuts [itself] off from them as a result. No one likes an a...

We must not build up ourselves at the expense of others.

The destructive power of pride is that it countenances nothing higher than itself. Because of an inh...

Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not ...

There may have been a time when pride was the very center of your life. You had ambitious thoughts o...

Man has rejected the revelation of the Bible concerning the true and living God of his fathers, and ...

Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifesty...

Pride always puts [self] above others—and cuts [itself] off from them as a result. No one likes an a...

We must not build up ourselves at the expense of others.

The destructive power of pride is that it countenances nothing higher than itself. Because of an inh...

Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not ...

There may have been a time when pride was the very center of your life. You had ambitious thoughts o...

Man has rejected the revelation of the Bible concerning the true and living God of his fathers, and ...

Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people.