What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
~By Charley Pride ~
The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
~By John W. Foster ~
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 ~
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 ~
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
There is a pride in speaking this language.
~By Bernard Pivot ~
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
~By Saint Augustine ~
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 ~
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
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.
~By Laura Schlessinger ~
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 ~
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
~By Andrew Young ~
All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
~By Ray Kroc ~
As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
~By Paul Bryant ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
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 ~
I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
~By Dustin Diamond ~
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 ~
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 ~
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
~By George Richards Minot ~
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
~By Voltaire ~
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
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 ~
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
If you are a housewife, take pride in that.
~By Anthea Turner ~
If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
Pride will spit in pride's face.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
~By Joanna Baillie ~
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 ~
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
~By Francesca Annis ~
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
~By John Ruskin ~
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 ~
The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
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 ~
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
~By Henry Bolingbroke ~
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
~By Herbert Croly ~
I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.
~By Julie Benz ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
~By John Chrysostom ~
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
~By Abu Bakr ~
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
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 works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
~By Adam Clarke ~
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.
~By James McAvoy ~
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
~By George Santayana ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.
~By Johnny Rotten ~
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 perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
~By Edward Irving ~
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 ~
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
~By John Ruskin ~
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.
~By James De La Vega ~
Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
~By Xun Zi ~
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 ~
The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
~By Sholom Aleichem ~
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 ~
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
~By Alain Rene Le Sage ~
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
~By Gary Ackerman ~
The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.
~By George Gillespie ~
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 ~
Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
~By Elizabeth Barton ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
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