Pride Quotes
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I remember when I was younger taking more pride in Wimbledon than the French. That and the U.S. Open - they were the ones I wanted to win.
John McEnroe -
It is a great error to be superior to others....It is such pride as this that makes a man appear a fool, makes him abused by others, and invites disaster. A man who is truly versed in any art will of his own accord be clearly aware of his own deficiency; and therefore, his ambition being never satisfied, he ends by never being proud.
Kenko Yoshida
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
W. S. Gilbert -
Pride went before, ambition follows him.
William Shakespeare -
I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.
Dwyane Wade -
I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
John Milton -
When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling -
All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride.
William James
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If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice
Dalai Lama -
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
William Blake -
Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.
Christian Bale -
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.
Eve Curie -
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
Vladimir Nabokov -
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
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I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.
Jon Gruden -
The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise Pascal -
There is a strange kind of parental pride when 'Topdog' ends up on Broadway, or 'Elaine Stritch.'
George C. Wolfe -
Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.
Brad Moore -
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
William Faulkner -
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise Pascal
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As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'
Ashton Eaton -
You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
Billy Joel -
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
John Calvin -
If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?
P. D. James