Pride Quotes / Page 1

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in. Gary Ackerman

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. Theodor Adorno

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. Aeschylus

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger. Sholom Aleichem

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. Dante Alighieri

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day. Paul Thomas Anderson

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

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

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique. Minna Antrim

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

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. Johann Arndt

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. Saint Augustine

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. Jane Austen

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America. Joe Baca

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. Walter Bagehot

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. Joanna Baillie

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. Abu Bakr

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. Hosea Ballou

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

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations. Claude Bernard

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. Sandra Bernhard