Pride Quotes

• The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

  

  Claudius Claudianus
  • Character
  • Addition
  • Noblest

• To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Friends
  • Animal
  • Tolerant

• Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

  

  Joanna Baillie
  • Pride

• 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.

  

  John Thorn
  • Community
  • Challenge
  • Pride

• He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Proud
  • Glasses
  • Trumpets

• I take a lot of pride in being able to say that what you see is what you get.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Pride

• I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA.

  

  Kellie Pickler
  • Hope
  • Support
  • Animal

• I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Race pride, socialist ideals, and a sincerity as exalted as that of Carlyle's visionaries coalesced in Asa Philip Randolph.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Pride

• Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.

  

  Cynthia Voigt
  • Words
  • Reading
  • Pride

• This is one of the most important moments in the life of our country. I stand here before you filled with deep pride and joy: - pride in the ordinary, humble people of this country. You have shown such a calm, patient determination to reclaim this country as your own, - and joy that we can loudly proclaim from the rooftops - free at last!

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• You know what we pride ourselves on that - although I wouldn't mind if my backside was a little smaller. But look at the original divas... take Aretha Franklin for example - I've seen her live in the States and she was mammoth, but she had that crowd under control and they doted on every movement she made! We're not little midgets but the music industry is not about that, it's about loving the music and respecting what you do.

  

  Kate DeAraugo
  • Music
  • Movement
  • Example

• 'What is pride without honor? What is honor without truth? Honor is not what you say. It is not what you read.' Romulus thumps his chest. 'Honor is what you do.'

  

  Pierce Brown
  • Truth
  • Pride
  • Honor

• You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

  

  George Eliot
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Ashamed

• The first, the very first; oh! noneCan feel again as they have done;In love, in war, in pride, in allThe planets of life's coronal,However beautiful or bright,-What can be like their first sweet light?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Life
  • Done
  • War

• Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Respect
  • Pride

• I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

  

  Lorraine Toussaint
  • Proud
  • Pride

• One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.

  

  Ai-jen Poo
  • Work
  • Children
  • Pride

• There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • People
  • Life
  • Pride

• We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the terribly offensive sins of the fleshthat shock them, but the awful nature of the pride of their own hearts opposing Jesus Christ. When they see themselves in the light of the Lord, the shame, the horror, and desperate conviction hit home for them.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Home
  • Nature

• My mother always said to carry yourself with dignity and pride, and I just think Audrey Hepburn totally epitomizes that, you know? From such a young age, she was dancing ballet. There was a lot going on in her life... that was during the time of the Nazis.

  

  Auli'i Cravalho
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

  

  William Golding
  • Lord
  • Nationalism
  • Savages

• I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts. We can either be ugly and contemptuous in our behavior, which will turn people off, or else we can carry ourselves with dignity and pride.

  

  Hazel Scott
  • Musicians
  • Dignity
  • Emissaries

• If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Chinese
  • Economy
  • Leaders

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