Pride Quotes

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

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.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.

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.

To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.

When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Lookin back on it at least my pride is in tact cause we said no strings attached and I still got tied up in that

We all salute, with pride, the same American Flag. And we are equal - totally equal - in the eyes of Almighty God.

The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

We have a pride of who we are as Latinos, regardless if we're Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, and we're very proud of our customs and our history and our traditions and who we are.

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.

You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.

In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.

Turning someone away who wants to come near you, just because of your pride is also a form of mistake.

There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.

The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've ‘exercised.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

The proud man is forsaken of God.

You don't just walk out because you think someone has insulted you and your pride has been hurt.

Damned indecision and cursed pride.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.