Top 100 Quotes About Pride
#1. Sometimes it takes more than shouting it to show your pride. It takes more than a sign, a fabulous outfit, or a month of parades. Pride has to resonate from within; shine out to everyone around you. It has mean something to you and only you first before you announce it to the world.
Solange Nicole
#2. I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride of ancestry to point back to. Our forefathers did not come here as did the Pilgrim fathers, in search of a place where they could enjoy civil and religious liberties.
Augustus Washington
#3. Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
Nate Ruess
#4. The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.
John Wesley
#6. Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.
Francis Quarles
#7. But learn to take a little pride in yourself, kid! If there's anything I can teach you, it's how to be self-confident.
Brandon Sanderson
#8. The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.
Confucius
#9. Sometimes we allow pride to keep us running after a man who doesn't want to be captured.
Lisa Marbly-Warir
#10. It was such a shame. Jared was stunningly gorgeous, and once upon a time, he was a good guy. If things had been different, I could be his. Once upon a time, I thought I was his. But I wouldn't be sacrificing my pride to him. Ever. Again.
Penelope Douglas
#11. Pride was an unattractive trait, even if it was well-placed.
J.R. Ward
#12. Ask yourself what it is you want more, to ease your ancient fear or to revenge your childish dopey injured male pride." I
Don DeLillo
#13. 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.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#14. By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
James Madison
#15. A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
Karl Kraus
#16. I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
Rachel Bloom
#17. all of whom radiated level-headed competence, physical fitness and pride in appearance, and lived on a different planet from the one defined by general weak tittering, the oxygen levels of which I was more used to.
Simon Winder
#18. If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
Danny Boyle
#19. I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.
Tony Hawk
#20. So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important
self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.
Brandon Sanderson
#21. Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.
Henry Cloud
#22. I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.
S.J Perelman
#23. The duke's eyes were dark, but there was a glaze there. Pride in his dark son.
Anne Mallory
#24. Not many people are enemies to anyone. But the ones full of greed or hate, pride or fear - their passion is strong enough to lever all the world into war.
Orson Scott Card
#25. It is pride that makes error and discord among men.
Leo Tolstoy
#26. God said to him [Eblis], 'You have become proud.' He replied, 'If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.
Mansur Al-Hallaj
#27. If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.
Angela Merkel
#28. A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
Henry Ford
#29. Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.
John Gay
#30. Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.
Gregory David Roberts
#31. It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love two things: politics and baseball. When we're not talking politics, we're talking baseball.
Jose Peralta
#32. She'd learned so many ways to be modest, it had become a source of pride.
Mary Connealy
#33. To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.
Carolyn Wells
#34. Really, it's only been since the '70s that Canadians have had any pride in their country.
Dave Foley
#35. When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy
Pope Francis
#36. Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.
Og Mandino
#37. I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.
Muriel Rukeyser
#38. Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
Samuel Johnson
#39. Pride begins when someone starts to assume that s/he is the custodian of all truths and attempts to be right in all circumstances, which is IMPOSSIBLE!
Assegid Habtewold
#40. I'm an eclectic assortment of power and pride. I don't need rules or labels. Though if there was one I would lay claim to every time, it is as simple as it is misunderstood. I am a witch.
Hollow Ryan
#42. It is our conscience, not our pride, that has put doorkeepers at our doors.
Seneca.
#43. I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.
Becki Newton
#44. How easy it is to hate oneself! True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace would be to love oneself in all simplicity - as one would love any one of those who themselves have suffered and loved in Christ.
Georges Bernanos
#45. I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.
Neil Patrick Harris
#46. The greatest enemy to love is your pride
Pete Wilson
#47. Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden ... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.
Julie Moir Messervy
#48. Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
Oliver Goldsmith
#49. More and more I knew my budding world was ruined if he were free in it. As a specimen Mr. Wallace might be my pride. Glory to him in a jar. But free! Better to release the sweet moving tiger or the delicate snake, the monumental elephant. I was just a castaway to be devoured.
William H Gass
#51. Well, for cool native impudence and pure innate pride, you haven't your equal
Charlotte Bronte
#53. Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
Joanna Baillie
#54. That's what I take pride in in my stand-up, is changing things up. Being special.
Godfrey
#55. If he died now, she'd never have the chance to overcome her pride and beg him to kiss her one more time.
Vivienne Savage
#56. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism ...
George Washington
#58. Not branded dresses, expensive perfumes, studded sandals, glamorous accessories, the true beauty of a woman is her smile, willpower, confidence, intelligence and her ability to survive and rule with pride in a man's world.
Happy Woman's Day !
Harshada Pathare
#59. I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.
Morrissey
#60. For the only time in my life I would be living with a chain-smoking semi-invalid whose chief point of pride in life was his membership in the Ku Klux Clan.
Katherine Paterson
#61. Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
Sophie Swetchine
#62. To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#63. It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
Eric Hoffer
#64. Giving up pride means giving all credit and glory to Guru and Krishna.
Radhanath Swami
#65. I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those starry diadems Caught from the early sobbing of the morn.
John Keats
#66. In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
Weili Dai
#67. The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
Gustave Flaubert
#68. Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
Philip Yancey
#69. What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?
Blaise Pascal
#70. I take pride in just knowing how to do things. Whenever a coach tells me to do something, I always try to do it the way he said or do it to my best ability.
LaMarcus Aldridge
#71. We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.
Ronald Reagan
#72. The voting station was like a block and a half from my house, so me and my parents just walked on over and cast our ballots, and it was really cool. I love the civic pride of being a part of this national activity.
Bridgit Mendler
#73. I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.
Rigoberta Menchu
#74. I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.
Johnny Otis
#75. Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning. Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.
John Keble
#76. Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
William Blake
#77. I think I might have seen pride in Dad's eyes. Or maybe it was just a gleam of Why is my offspring so insane?
Rachel Hawkins
#79. Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
Pleasefindthis
#80. Of course, now I had to show I was worthy, but I didn't feel at all concerned. I would do whatever it took to get there. I didn't share my feelings of pride with anybody. My style was to keep moving and not reflect too much. But it felt great.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#81. The knowledge of the purpose of the success that you receive by grace in every area will keep us from pride and the love of money
Sunday Adelaja
#82. There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.
Cass Sunstein
#83. We've got a lot of guys in here that are playing for pride and contracts and different things. Now that we are out of the race, guys are playing looser and you can see it in our play.
Wes Walz
#84. I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.
Narendra Modi
#85. She has no mother because fatherblood hates with love and pride, but motherblood with hate loves and cohabits.
William Faulkner
#86. Acting so obviously submissive to Max around strangers, I felt a lot of humiliation. The looks from people, the comments. But I also felt this strange sense of pride. I am his possession, his property. And I'm proud of that. I'm proud of how happy I make him.
Willow Madison
#87. American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
Herbert Croly
#88. If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.
Terry Pratchett
#89. Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.
George Vecsey
#90. Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head, but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride.
C.S. Lewis
#91. I don't know what I'm saying, really, but I guess it's like having a kid, though I don't have any kids. It's yours, you made it, and no matter what happens, you have that pride of ownership. You love it, even it it didn't amount to much.
Kevin Wilson
#92. Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my blood? And who now owns my indecisions, my hands, my private pain, my pride?
Pablo Neruda
#93. The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim. Conceit and false pride on the part of a nation prevent the rise of remorse for its crime.
Albert Einstein
#94. Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#95. Assumptions equal a loss of pride and the sting of defeat.
Donna Lynn Hope
#96. Don't cap your potential in the name of humility. First, maximize your potential, serve the world with your greatness and then worry about pride lol
Assegid Habtewold
#97. Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
Alexander Pope
#98. only joy in the doing of it, except for the one thing. The one consideration strong enough to outweigh Jamie's pride, loom larger than his sense of manhood, than his threatened soul's peace. Frank. That was the single idea that had driven me through this day, sustained me well past the
Diana Gabaldon
#99. He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.
Davis Bunn
#100. Money was evil, beauty vain, and both were transitory. Ambition was pride, desire for gain was avarice, desire of the flesh was lust, desire for honor, even for knowledge and beauty, was vainglory. Insofar as these diverted man from seeking the life of the spirit, they were sinful.
Barbara W. Tuchman
