Pride Quotes

• How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought, in spite of all her pride in spite of herself? She believed that she could have borne the sense of Almighty displeasure, because He knew all, and could read her penitence, and hear her cries for help in time to come. But Mr.Thornton-why did she tremble, and hide her face in the pillow? What strong feeling had overtaking her at last?

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Sense of Almighty

• But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Heart
  • Alone
  • Jesus

• Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • God
  • Pride

• It's always weird when I meet people who don't know how to crack crabs open and eat them the right way. I take a lot of pride in my crab-eating ability.

  

  Eric Hutchinson
  • Pride
  • Crabs
  • I Meet

• I don't take much pride in fake fighting.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Fighting
  • Pride
  • Fake

• I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.

  

  Bill Simmons
  • Daughter
  • Pride
  • Soccer

• Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

  

  TONY Wilson Musician Hot Chocolate
  • Drugs
  • Guns
  • Warehouses

• When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time... Of course it's not remotely like seeing a baby for the first time, but I can remember with each book what room I was in when I opened it. That would be excitement, though, I think. Not pride.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Time
  • Book
  • Remember

• Kiwis must not fall behind the standards of other countries. We pride ourselves on our quality of life. Thus we must pave the road in the right way for the future generations.

  

  Kylie Bax
  • Life
  • Future
  • Fall

• I don't think we have to make a big thing about being gay, except for when we get together for these gay pride events.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • Together
  • Gay
  • Pride

• A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who 'stood in high degree,' happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic fact to the mediaeval mind. It appealed strongly to common human sympathy and pity; it startled also another feeling, that of fear. It frightened men and awed them. It made them feel that man is blind and helpless, the plaything of an inscrutable power, called by the name of Fortune or some other name,-a power which appears to smile on him for a little, and then on a sudden strikes him down in his pride.

  

  Andrew Cecil Bradley
  • Fortune
  • Human Sympathy
  • Tragic Fact

• Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.

  

  Allen Covert
  • Work
  • Children
  • Advice

• Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Joy
  • Sin
  • Animals

• Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Great
  • Family
  • Done

• You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think it has to move slowly, step by step. I pride myself on the construction of my stories but it's not something I impose on them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Kitchen

• A lot of characters I've played have a certain amount of strength, pride, and leadership.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Leadership
  • Pride

• If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Pride
  • Blind
  • Deliverance

• Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.

  

  Berton Braley
  • Pride
  • Position
  • Snobbery

• People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

  

  Harper Lee
  • People
  • Pride

• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Giving
  • Pride
  • Generosity

• I expect people that come to the studio to work to come with the same energy I come with. If I see less than that, I get very strong about, if you want to do this, come with a sense of pride, come with eagerness and anxiety.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • People
  • Work
  • Strong

• Idleness and Pride Tax with a heavier Hand than Kings and Parliaments; If we can get rid of the former we may easily bear the Latter.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • May
  • Hand
  • Pride

• An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by just dreaming. It's nice to dream. But it's the work ethic and pride that makes you get to that mountain top and that level of success.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Work
  • American
  • Success

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