There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
~By Paul Bryant ~
The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
~By Sholom Aleichem ~
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 ~
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'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 ~
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
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 ~
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
~By Carl Jung ~
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
~By Arthur H. Sulzberger ~
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
~By William Penn ~
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
~By Susanna Moodie ~
Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.
~By Steve Kanaly ~
I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.
~By Linford Christie ~
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 ~
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 ~
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
~By Petrarch ~
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.
~By Fred W. Friendly ~
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
~By John Chrysostom ~
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.
~By Minna Antrim ~
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
~By Charley Pride ~
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 ~
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
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 ~
Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
~By Dan O'Brien ~
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 ~
No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.
~By Thomas V. Smith ~
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
~By Elizabeth Barton ~
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.
~By Chris Hadfield ~
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.
~By Bob Riley ~
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 ~
Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
~By Janet Street-Porter ~
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
~By Walter Lang ~
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
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 ~
Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
~By Joanna Baillie ~
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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 ~
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 ~
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
~By Herbert Croly ~
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 ~
I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
~By Zhu Rongji ~
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 ~
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
~By Xun Zi ~
The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
~By Harold Warner ~
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
~By John Thorn ~
It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.
~By James Young ~
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.
~By Floyd Patterson ~
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 ~
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
~By George Santayana ~
It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
~By Theodore Bikel ~
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
~By William Gilbert ~
My pride fell with my fortunes.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.
~By Paul Martin ~
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
~By Murray Rothbard ~
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
~By Alain Rene Le Sage ~
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 ~
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
~By Paul Bryant ~
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 ~
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 hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
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 ~
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 ~
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. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~By William Tecumseh Sherman ~
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 ~
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
~By Thomas Merton ~
If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
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 ~
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
~By Saint Augustine ~
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 ~
It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.
~By Genevieve Gorder ~
This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.
~By Chiwetel Ejiofor ~
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
~By Adam Clarke ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
~By Claude Bernard ~
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
~By Gary Ackerman ~
The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
~By Martin Luther ~
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 ~
He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
~By Margaret Truman ~
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