Pride Quotes

So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.

I feel pride in being a Greenlander.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

I want to do something that people can really say, 'Hey, man, that was good, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of that.' 'Pride' and 'Transformers' and things like that.

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

One may be humble out of pride.

I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

So it's a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could.

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

One thing that I pride myself on is, everything that I do is completely legit. We go through every channel, and do it the proper way.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

Have you got a Beemer, an Audi, a Saab or a Volvo that replaced a Ford, Vauxhall, Rover or Nissan? Many Brits have. Your first Beemer. A particularly nice smell of leather. Something rather plain but satisfactory about the interior. And that lovely enamel wotsit in the middle of the steering wheel. A moment of quiet 'because I'm worth it' pride.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it's always around and you're very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.

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.

I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.