Pride Quotes

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.

Whether it has been supporting Corby's new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area.

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

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

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

At this point in my life I am just about enjoying my free time and my downtime and that's what is about for us. My job is about making your job easier. I take a lot of pride in the quality of what I present, especially in 'Money Saving Meals.'

One may be humble out of pride.

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

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.

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.

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

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

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

I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

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

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.