Pride Quotes

• 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.

  

  Joe Shuster
  • Work
  • Job
  • Pride

• The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Results
  • Achieved
  • Govern

• I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Painting
  • Rooms
  • Tables

• Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.

  

  Pope Gregory VII
  • Mean
  • Pride
  • Kings

• Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

  

  Alain Rene Le Sage
  • Pride

• I support Children's Hospital of Los Angeles through Disney Channel and Britti Cares International in support of children with various diseases and illnesses and donate my time with pride and dignity.

  

  Kyle Massey
  • Time
  • Children
  • Support

• We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn't vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960.

  

  David Suzuki
  • People
  • Women
  • Pride

• When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.

  

  Doug Collins
  • Team
  • City
  • Proud

• Getting released in 2014 was the best thing that happened to me because I got to regain my focus, regain my pride, and come back as the best-conditioned athlete there is in WWE, which ultimately led me to become the single greatest WWE champion.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Single
  • Focus
  • Athlete

• I've got a lot of people I'm carrying on my back, but it's a light load because I take a lot of pride in who I am and where I came from.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • People
  • Light
  • Pride

• We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.

  

  Okakura Kakuzo
  • Truth
  • Pride
  • Telling The Truth

• I love hard work. 'One Man, Two Guvnors' was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

  

  James Corden
  • Time
  • Work
  • Pride

• The Orlando terrorist may be dead, but the virus that poisoned his mind remains very much alive. And we must attack it with clear eyes, steady hands, unwavering determination and pride in our country and our values.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Country
  • Mind
  • May

• Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

  

  Quintilian
  • Pride

• The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

  

  Philip Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Pride

• I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

  

  Franz Grillparzer
  • Pride

• Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him.

  

  Edward Norris Kirk
  • Curiosity
  • Relation
  • Affection

• Lucy swayed in shock. A gust of wind moaned through the conservatory and blew out all but one of her candles. Simon must have done this. He’d destroyed his fairyland conservatory. Why? She sank to her knees, huddled on the cold floor, her one remaining flame cradled in her numb palms. She’d seen how tenderly Simon had cared for his plants. Remembered the look of pride when she’d first discovered the dome and fountain. For him to have smashed all this . . . He must have lost hope. All hope.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Done
  • Cold
  • Plant

• There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Women
  • May
  • Power

• The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

  

  Martin Luther
  • World
  • God
  • Pride

• These days, the selfie and its main outlet, Instagram, generally come in for much adult loathing. But consider this: The selfie is a tiny pulse of girl pride—a shout-out to the self. … The selfie suggests something in picture form—I think I look [beautiful] [happy] [funny] [sexy]. Do you?—that a girl could never get away with saying. It puts the gaze of the camera squarely in a girl’s hands, and along with it, the power to influence the photo’s interpretation.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Happy

• I really, really pride myself on being a professional and a man of keeping my word. It means a lot to me, truly.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • Pride
  • Professional

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