Top 100 The Pride Quotes
#1. Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.
Berton Braley
#2. Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,
which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.
John Ruskin
#3. I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride.
Alfred Bunn
#4. False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#5. I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
Franz Grillparzer
#6. Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.
Robert Jordan
#8. 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
#9. I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery, the offering, and the pride.
Muriel Rukeyser
#10. 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
#11. Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed.
John Gay
#12. and it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former glory of the fame of Viennese culture.
Stefan Zweig
#13. As far back as I can remember, I've utterly destroyed within myself the pride of being human. And I saunter to the periphery of the Race like a timorous monster, lacking the energy to claim kinship with some other band of apes.
Emil M. Cioran
#14. The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.
James M. Barrie
#15. But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
Ted Strickland
#16. And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, as far as I'm concerned, is in New York the pride of New York theater.
Tony Kushner
#17. All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever (I John 2:16, 17) .
A.W. Tozer
#18. This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#19. It is the pride of kings that throws man kind into confusion.
Thomas Paine
#20. Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.
Karen Blixen
#21. The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
Art Modell
#23. The pride of the digital age is not just in the possession of innovative tools but the ability to skillfully connect with humans behind them
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#24. It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.
James F. Cooper
#25. There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
Oscar Wilde
#26. Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.
Laurence Sterne
#27. To have never experienced pain is to have never appreciated pleasure. To have never been knocked down is to have never felt the pride of getting back up.
William Panzarella
#28. The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
Friedrich Schiller
#29. The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
Alexander Pope
#30. The most outstanding manifestation of negative growth in the spiritual, mental and physical health of the human race through eons of evolution is the pride of place that has been given to Guilt.
Zeina
#31. Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. It was the emotional equivalent of being stung in the pride by a jellyfish.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#33. The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
Democritus
#34. It is a thing to be regretted (and prevented, if possible) that a whole nation should be ruined for the pride and obstinacy of its princes,
Matthew Henry
#35. The thing that gave me most pride about it was to see the smiles and the pride on my staff's faces, because a restaurant is a team thing, and for the whole team it's very much that touchy-feely thing that I could have helped them achieve such an award.
Paul Rankin
#36. As for Sono, she was trying to instruct him, to show how a man should treat a woman. The pride of the peacock, the lust of the goat, and the wrath of the lion are the glory and wisdom of God.
Saul Bellow
#37. The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.
Criss Jami
#38. A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.
James A. Garfield
#39. She touched her finger to his lips and smiled slightly. "You just made me very happy, Nick Barrett."
"Yeah, but what do we tell the grand kids if it goes that far?"
"Tell them the truth," she whispered, "Grandma kicked your ass."
From "THE PRIDE
Richard Tabaka
#40. For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#41. This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
Bernard De Mandeville
#42. Let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of mind and loftiness of purpose, which enliven and raise the feeble and the timid and ward off all vain thoughts. Let her be the pride of her country and let her command respect.
Jose Rizal
#43. There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.
Jane Austen
#44. Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh.
Robert Jordan
#45. Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
Samuel Richardson
#46. In Jesus the performance pendulum stops - both the pride of success and the despair of failure are absorbed by grace.
Melissa B. Kruger
#47. The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.
Edmund Burke
#48. A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.
Henry Latham Doherty
#49. The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.
George Gillespie
#50. Might be that marriage was not the death of a woman and the end of her true self, but the unfolding of her. It might be that a woman could be a wife without having to cut the pride and the spirit out of herself. A woman might blossom into being a wife, not be trimmed down to fit.
Philippa Gregory
#51. Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
Samuel Johnson
#52. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Sarah Price
#53. The pride in strength and important mystery showed no less in the eyes of the sweepers than in those of the machinists and inspectors, and in those of the foreman, who alone was without a lunchbox. A
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#54. The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
George Richards Minot
#55. There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
Charles Dickens
#56. The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
Frederick Buechner
#57. I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.
Charles Dickens
#58. What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.
Joseph Conrad
#59. The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.
John Piper
#60. A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Walter Bagehot
#61. Not the bee upon the blossom,
In the pride o' sunny noon;
Not the little sporting fairy,
All beneath the simmer moon;
Not the poet, in the moment
Fancy lightens in his e'e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gi'es to me.
Robert Burns
#62. Cupcakes - when you want to watch your weight, but still feel the pride that comes with eating an entire cake.
Dana Gould
#63. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.
Charles Dickens
#64. Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
Hesketh Pearson
#65. And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.
Leo Tolstoy
#66. There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
William Osler
#67. God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.
Derwin L. Gray
#68. Love unlived is a sin against life, and mourning is one of the ways we love. I felt it then, and I let it happen, the longing for him to return. The power in his eyes, and the pride when I did something he admired, and the love in his laugh. The longing: the longing for the lost.
Gregory David Roberts
#69. Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
Alexander Pope
#70. I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall ... but I really do like what I've been able to do here.
Wil Wheaton
#71. What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic
Queen Victoria
#72. In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.
Thomas Paine
#73. The pride Kaspar had seen in his father's eyes, despite the admonishing words about foolish acts, had branded the boy for life. 'Never be afraid.' He knew that no matter what, any choice must be made fearlessly, or else all would be lost.
Raymond E. Feist
#74. Be on your guard against the Pride that repels advice, resents reproof, and refuses to own a fault.
A.L.O.E.
#75. The work, the pride in your work, the worth of the work itself ... all those things faded away to the magic-lantern shades they really were when the pain got bad enough.
Stephen King
#76. However, President Obama's unwillingness to attend the Paris march is a personal failing on his part that I believe does damage to the pride and soul of the nation he leads.
Rick Ungar
#77. Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.
Charlemagne
#78. If you can cope the pride when winning,
then you can confront despair when lose.
Toba Beta
#79. You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity.
Andrew O'Hagan
#80. Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.
Manny Farber
#81. But the pride of those who live as if they believed they were better than anyone else is rooted in a secret failure to believe in their own goodness.
Thomas Merton
#82. Innumerable soldiers have told me they don't want to be thanked for their service and they don't want to be seen as heroes (or, for that matter, villains). They want to be respected for the job they did and the pride they took in doing it well.
Elizabeth Heaney
#83. The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.
Voltaire
#84. I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#85. The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself ... It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.
George Santayana
#86. All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#88. If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.
Leo Tolstoy
#89. The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine
which is to say, its little bit of humanity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#90. The pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.
Walter Shaw Sparrow
#91. The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. When you do that, you have dignity. You have the pride. You can walk about with character and pride no matter in what place you happen to finish.
Billy Mills
#93. How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of
so noble an undertaking!
Abigail Adams
#94. It wasn't because the lions were particularly hungry. The humans had been nothing compared to the eighteen-hundred-pound Cape buffalo, the pride's more typical prey. The cars had been like boxes full of snacks.
James Patterson
#95. Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#96. The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.
Leonard Boswell
#97. The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
George Eliot
#98. A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.
Conn Iggulden
#99. Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess
Frank Brady
#100. Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.
Hesketh Pearson
