Pride Quotes
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The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.
Hal Higdon -
You have to take a lot of pride in it. It's part of the game plan. If it's called, you want to make it work. Just because it's a gadget and it doesn't work, a lot of people will (say), 'Well, we don't normally do that.' But we feel like when we call those type plays, we want to make them work.
Arnaz Battle
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.
John Joseph Lydon -
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
William Blake -
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Mexico is on an irreversible, definitive, historical path to democratic equality, ... I am confident that ... all Mexicans can say with pride and with unity that democracy has been institutionalized in our country.
Ernesto Zedillo -
Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.
Steve Kanaly
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I feel as if I'm God's champion, and I have a lot of pride in that.
Jon Jones -
Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield -
The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride.
Beatrice M. Hinkle -
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
William Wordsworth -
To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.
Gautama Buddha -
All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.
Ernest Hemingway
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What passes for patriotism is now largely measured by the flag pins in our lapels and the mouthing of pride and faith in our soldiers, sailors, and aviators. Having long since lost track of the precepts of American democracy, we've devolved into a cult of military, with its own blind faith and liturgy...
Bob Garfield -
There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
William Osler -
Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.
Sarah Dessen -
I can see his pride Peep through each part of him.
William Shakespeare -
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.
Mother Teresa
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Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that gives them noble blood.
Madeleine de Souvre -
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
William Arthur Ward -
I Feel Love "by Donna Summer," El Baile Y El Salón "by Café Tacvba," Fuimos Amor "among many others are some of my pride hymns, here I explain why .
Esteman -
Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong.
Ezra Taft Benson