Pride Quotes

...it was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder; it was a simple, urgent matter of public pride, a matter of how much I had in common with other people.

~ Richard Wright

I remind you that I have no faith. If I sought God, I find myself.

~ Henry De Montherlant

I have more concern for my nephew's welfare than for Lannister pride.

~ George R.r. Martin

At the end of the day, if pride is your greatest strength, turn it into vanity.

~ Lionel Suggs

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

Cherubs fan our foolish fires, filling hearts with mad desires. They prick our pride and haughtiness with quick, angelic naughtiness.

~ John Biccard

You need to decide what works for you. But ultimately, hold out for adoration and respect

~ Catherine Sanderson

When we let go of our pride, we give ourselves permission to be human. We give ourselves permission to slip up and hurt and to grow without ridiculous standards of perfection constantly looming over our heads. We give ourselves a chance to face conflicts, to face ourselves, and to heal. And, in this healing process, we give others a chance to follow our lead.

~ Liz Newman

We have only minimal control over the rewards for our work and effort - other people’s validation, recognition, rewards. It’s far better when doing the work itself is sufficient. When fulfilling our own internal standards is what fills us with pride and self-respect. The less attached we are to the outcomes, the better. Our ego wants recognition & compensation. We have expectations. Let the effort, not the results be enough. Maybe your parents/kids/partner/etc won’t be impressed. We can’t let THAT be what motivates us. We can change the definition of success to: ‘peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.’ With this definition we decide not to let externals determine if something is worth doing. It’s on us.

~ Ryan Holiday

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

~ William Wordsworth

It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude.

~ Paul Hawken

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

~ Ford Frick

The Washington Redskin fan base represents honor, represents respect, represents pride.

~ Daniel Snyder

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

~ William Hazlitt

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

~ Ezra Taft Benson

I remember I used to think my dad was really cool working at a factory. He used to make buttons. I used to brag, 'This button here, My dad made it.' There was this sense of pride. It's knowing your dad is doing something cool.

~ Michael Pena

Sports play a very important role in consolidating the national strength, adding lustre to the country's prestige and honour, inspiring people with national dignity and pride, and imbuing the whole society with revolutionary mettle.

~ Kim Jong-Un

Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.

~ George Vecsey

We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions.

~ Donald Trump

We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride.

~ Sonya Walger

Quality is pride of workmanship.

~ W. Edwards Deming

It's easy to forget, as a leader, that when employees don't get the wide view, not only does the point of their work escape them, but it can also lead to real frustration. It's hard to feel pride and ownership when you don't understand where things are going.

~ Jason Fried

I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited and worked in many of the famous British resorts, from Great Yarmouth to Largs.

~ Martin Parr

Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been - and will always be - our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

~ Michelle Obama

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

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

~ Mary Antin

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

~ John Zimmerman

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

~ George Richards Minot

I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so there's no reason for anyone to ever come at me because I only want the best for everybody else.

~ Miley Cyrus

A girl's best friend is her pride.

~ Vanity

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

~ John C. Maxwell

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

~ Nancy Lopez

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

~ Norman Mailer

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.

~ Alexis Carrel

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

~ W. Edwards Deming

I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

~ Rosamund Pike

My pride at being a member of the theater community is deep, and we have a chance to reach a lot of people who might feel like there's a place for them. I want theater to be part of the cultural conversation and be on par with all mediums of television in its ability to be relevant.

~ Thomas Kail

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

~ William Penn

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

~ Walter Lippmann

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.

~ George Washington