Pride Quotes
Pride is not the heritage of man; humility should dwell with frailty, and atone for ignorance, error, and imperfection.
Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.
The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are the unseen tides that shape our days and our years.
The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.
Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.
I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.
We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.
Just think you are the greatest. Where's the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong.
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
Four tears in my face and you ain't never heard me cry/ I'm richer than all y'all, I got a bank full of pride
How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?
With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.
Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
The sense of pride I take away from doing something I know will be inspire women to feel confident about their bodies.
Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases.
Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.
My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.
The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.
Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.
If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.
When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.
Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to cover the hurt with a show of gladness.
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.
Women are all alike - aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride.
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
