It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.
~By James Young ~
The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
~By Joanna Baillie ~
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 ~
I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
~By Dustin Diamond ~
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 ~
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
~By John Zimmerman ~
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 ~
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
~By Aeschylus ~
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
~By Hugh Newell Jacobsen ~
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.
~By Douglas Hurd ~
We take pride in what we do.
~By Coolio ~
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
~By Gary Ackerman ~
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 ~
That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
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 ~
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
~By Ralph Thomas Walker ~
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 ~
Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
~By Janet Street-Porter ~
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 ~
I look upon pride as a sin.
~By Tommy Lee Jones ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
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 ~
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 ~
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
~By Margaret Truman ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is a pride in speaking this language.
~By Bernard Pivot ~
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
~By Andrew Young ~
At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
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 ~
Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.
~By Steve Kanaly ~
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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 was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
~By Saint Augustine ~
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 ~
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
~By John Steinbeck ~
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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.
~By Giorgos Seferis ~
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 ~
Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.
~By Graham Coxon ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
~By John Chrysostom ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
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 ~
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 ~
Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.
~By John W. Thompson ~
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
~By George Richards Minot ~
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
~By Charley Pride ~
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 ~
Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
~By Elizabeth Barton ~
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 ~
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 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 ~
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
~By Abu Bakr ~
We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.
~By John Thorn ~
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 ~
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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