Pride Quotes

• Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."

  

  Madame de Stael
  • She
  • Universe
  • Prayer

• If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Pride

• I want to do something that I'm proud of and that I can look back on with pride of accomplishment.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • Proud
  • Pride
  • Accomplishment

• The more you draw attention to it, the worse it becomes. So it's better just to show up and swallow your pride.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Up
  • Attention
  • Swallow

• The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.

  

  William Whewell
  • Giving
  • Mean
  • Mechanic

• The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• 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

• Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

  

  Thomas More
  • Thinking
  • Shining
  • Compare

• We take pride in what we do.

  

  Artis Leon Ivey Jr.
  • Pride

• When I say I'm going to take care of a woman, I don't just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I'm going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I'm going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Today
  • Pride

• Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.

  

  Will Davis
  • Start
  • Hold
  • Arrogant

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

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Respect
  • Pride

• I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Pride
  • Titanic

• We have to have pride in not just one people but all people.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Pride
  • All

• I'm never going to forget Wellston. It's where I grew up. It's my heart and my pride. The people are great here. I'm going to give back. I was born and raised here. I'm a humble person. The community knows that. I want to build it back to how it was and be a happier place than it was.

  

  Ben McLemore
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Angel

• Because grandparents are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Fear
  • Responsibility
  • Young

• I most certainly am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community. I don't have an opinion on people with different religious, sexual or political preferences. I'm one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • People
  • Different
  • Political

• The Ephesians took great pride in their temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Amazons had worshipped here, and the fabulously rich King Croesus built the original temple.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • World
  • Great
  • King

• If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • People
  • Pride

• There's always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Pride
  • Properly

• Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Passion
  • Pride

• I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Black
  • Light

• I always take pride in the fact that nobody can mess with me, and I never let anybody mess with me my entire life.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Life
  • Pride

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