Pride Quotes

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

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

Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

Art is the proper task of life.

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.

What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

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

If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always...always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

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

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

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.

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

False humility is more insulting than open pride!

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or the sense of personal expansion that comes from discovering that we women have a worthy heritage. Along with pride often comes rage "“ rage that one has been deprived of such a significant knowledge.

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

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.

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

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

Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and pulls for honour and recognition. It will devise subtle, religiously acceptable means to call attention to the service rendered. If we stoutly refuse to give in to this lust of the flesh, we crucify it. Every time we crucify the flesh, we crucify our pride and arrogance.

A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest.

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

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....

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.

Casual?" Elam halted and crossed his arms. "My good horse, there's a big difference between casual and confident. I am aware of the danger, but......I want to maintain a confident mind-set in full assurance of faith, otherwise my heart might melt within me." ..... "Take care that your confidence does not swell into arrogance, for that is the downfall of every man of pride.

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

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.

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

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

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

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

You’ve just mentioned the price that has to be paid…Pride, freedom…Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything. Even courage, don’t you think? And don’t you think a lot of courage is needed to fight God?

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

He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

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

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praisingthemselves.

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.

Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

It makes me sad, sad inside, to see a warrior without his pride.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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

That song, for me, is about drugs and alcohol and loss and love. It's about being proud of who you are, being proud of your situation and just being stoked that things are always going to get better or always gonna get worse and that's such a great thing. Every day is a new surprise.