Pride Quotes

We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession...A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.

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

Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.

The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.

Anybody can say they want to be the greatest ever. I take pride in it. If you're around me long enough and watch me work, that's what I'm striving for. I won't stop until I am.

Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.

Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood.

Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified.

When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are most base and infirm, who most allow themselves to be carried away by anger and hatred.

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty.

God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself.

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.

Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

I will go through a lot of pain to beat someone. If there's pride and ego on the line, if I'm desperate, then I'm willing to go to a place where it hurts a lot more.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

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.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.