When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
~By Hugh Newell Jacobsen ~
I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness.
~By Steve Case ~
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.
~By Steve Kanaly ~
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
~By Saint Augustine ~
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
~By Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont ~
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
~By Martin Luther ~
I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
~By John Steinbeck ~
We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That's what families care about.
~By Jodi Rell ~
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.
~By James Madison ~
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
~By John Chrysostom ~
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
~By John Lennon ~
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
~By William Gilbert ~
We take pride in what we do.
~By Coolio ~
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
~By Henry Bolingbroke ~
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.
~By Johann Arndt ~
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
~By George Washington ~
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.
~By Todd Solondz ~
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.
~By Linford Christie ~
To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
~By Kim Campbell ~
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
~By William Faulkner ~
It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.
~By Wayne Kramer ~
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.
~By Jerry Doyle ~
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.
~By Alan Paton ~
So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm.
~By Kevin Garnett ~
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
~By Norman Mailer ~
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.
~By Dave Mustaine ~
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
~By J. G. Holland ~
I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.
~By Anderson Cooper ~
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
~By Barack Obama ~
Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
~By John Zimmerman ~
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
~By Art Modell ~
All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
~By Ray Kroc ~
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
~By Paul Keating ~
My pride fell with my fortunes.
~By William Shakespeare ~
A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
~By Susan Lieberman ~
Brown v. Board helped unite us all, and gave us all great pride knowing we all are truly E Pluribus Unum - one people out of many.
~By Mike Rogers ~
I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
~By Janet Street-Porter ~
The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.
~By Richard H. Davis ~
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
~By Harold Warner ~
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.
~By Jane Austen ~
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.
~By Isoroku Yamamoto ~
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
~By Samuel Butler ~
In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
~By Arthur Ochs Sulzberger ~
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
~By Francesca Annis ~
I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.
~By Joe Shuster ~
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
~By Robert Mugabe ~
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.
~By Paul Thomas Anderson ~
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
~By Herbert Croly ~
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.
~By Hesketh Pearson ~
And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
~By Charlie Dent ~
They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
~By Xun Zi ~
The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.
~By Steve Blake ~
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
~By George Richards Minot ~
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
~By Josh Billings ~
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.
~By Joseph Story ~
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
~By Andrew Young ~
I look upon pride as a sin.
~By Tommy Lee Jones ~
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
~By John Ruskin ~
We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.
~By John Thorn ~
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.
~By John Lasseter ~
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
~By Barack Obama ~
They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
~By Michael Jackson ~
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
~By Mary Roberts Rinehart ~
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
~By Abu Bakr ~
Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.
~By Lou Brock ~
After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.
~By Jay London ~
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
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