Pride Quotes

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

So she prayed, Lord, give me patience. She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linge...

Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.

Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart ...

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "sh...

The President was in seventh heaven when he heard himself being teased like this; he strutted about ...

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when...

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from ...

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when ...

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands fro...

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it a...

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I ...

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the h...

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into ...

Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remembe...

I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and...

I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so th...

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've got to get babysitters...

If what we want is God’s justice, coming to sort things out, we will do better to get entirely out o...

We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of...

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and a...

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986

• They’re like chickens who get out of the henhouse, and they’re so proud of themselves, and so puff...

Maybe Grodzenski was showing me, with his quiet pride, the reason he hummed a little while he worked...

The recurrence of a phenomenon like [Thomas] Edison is not very likely. The profound change of condi...

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

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the...

i found god in myself& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs...

She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor.Any ...

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a po...

You are unmannerly,sharp-tounged, and show no respect for your betters,which is practically everyone...

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it w...

I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk whe...

Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.

Pride is the luxury of the strong".

Observing people taking in the work I had watched Robert create was an emotional experience. It had ...

It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission an...

In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began ...

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to ...

If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and th...

Loving ourselves so much, we are naturally led to enlarge our own merits, to play down our transgres...

When I am paid a compliment, I must compare myself with the little donkey that carried Christ on Pal...

He's not wanting to fight," she assured the captain."He is driven by curiosity?" Deudermont asked."B...

It is a defeat of the spirit to learn one's arrogance causes such loss and pain. Pride invites you t...

A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humbl...

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Pride ruined the angels.

The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride er...

And metaphors like cats behind your smile,Each one wound up to purr,each one a pride,Each one a fine...

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.

...it was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder; it was a simple, urgent matt...

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like sch...

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, an...

... I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thin...

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, tha...

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny an...

Much self-condemnation, thus, is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by conde...

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamen...

You can't take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can't really be blamed...

Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.

In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection thi...

The only crime is pride.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil...

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the ...

There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only h...

For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a ...

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from h...

Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are rightTo warn me against losing mine. I cannot say—...

For when a woman resists an unwelcome passion, she is obeying to the full the law of her sex; the in...

Has he written to you?''He writes frequently.''Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M...

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is s...

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American...

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost alway...

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteou...

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

All right, shadow-priest, you've been spying — on what? What state secrets have you learned watching...

Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or loc...

The truly terrible thing about the war spirit, about the fear and hate hysteria it generates, is tha...

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it ...

We have invented a moral sense which is rotting now that we can't give it employment, and when a mor...

People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor.

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all...

It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

You could bounce rocks off her pride.