Pride Quotes

When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

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

The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family It is great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way - and hardly the best way - to keep score.

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain

The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

Take pride in yourself. Be your own person.

I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.

I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.

I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it's a great honour.

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.

I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin. Pride was the first stone-this was seen in Lucifer.

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his pack But no one can rate a burden's weight Until it has been on his back

Libraries are the pride of the city.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony.

I take pride in working very hard. You need to understand that hard work doesn't instantly pay off. My career grew gradually and taught me a lesson every step of the way.

Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.

Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.