Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
~By Charles Dickens ~
One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
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 ~
If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
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 ~
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 ~
The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
~By Michael Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
~By George A. Smith ~
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
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 ~
The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
~By Art Modell ~
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
~By Henry Bolingbroke ~
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
~By Charley Pride ~
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 ~
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
~By Rick Perry ~
Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.
~By Robert Jay Lifton ~
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 ~
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
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 ~
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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 ~
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 ~
The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
~By Paul Getty ~
The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
~By Harold Warner ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
~By Abu Bakr ~
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 ~
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 ~
I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.
~By Julie Benz ~
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
~By Walter Lang ~
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 ~
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 ~
One may be humble out of pride.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
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 ~
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 ~
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
~By Horace ~
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
~By Alain Rene Le Sage ~
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 ~
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
~By Nancy Lopez ~
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
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 ~
There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.
~By Billy Martin ~
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
~By George Richards Minot ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
~By Ford Frick ~
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 ~
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
~By William Faulkner ~
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 ~
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
~By Voltaire ~
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
~By Adam Clarke ~
The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
~By John W. Foster ~
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
~By Joe Baca ~
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 pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
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 ~
If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.
~By Tony Campolo ~
I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.
~By Johnny Rotten ~
I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
~By Garth Ennis ~
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
~By William Wordsworth ~
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
~By John Chrysostom ~
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
~By Thomas Merton ~
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.
~By William Hazlitt ~
The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it's so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it's lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.
~By John G. D. Clark ~
Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
~By Arthur C. Brooks ~
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
~By John Ruskin ~
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 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 ~
There is a pride in speaking this language.
~By Bernard Pivot ~
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 ~
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
~By Gary Ackerman ~
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
~By Mary Antin ~
It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.
~By Ben Harper ~
As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.
~By Roy Clark ~
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 ~
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
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.
~By Herb Brooks ~
It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
~By Margaret Truman ~
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