Pride Quotes

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
Muriel Rukeyser

Women, Lives, Hear

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

Important, Cowboys, Despite

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
John Lasseter

Great, Busy, Give

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

Perhaps, Vanity, Starved

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

Men, Seems, Land

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
Bob Schaffer

Power, Russians, Moscow

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.
Johann Lamont

Real, Pretty, Proud

In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?
Chris Noth

Life, Society, Democracy

I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.
Leslie Moonves

Success, Good, Great

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.
Cass Sunstein

Themselves, Lawyers, Whoever

I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.
Joe Shuster

Work, Best, Job

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
Vijay Mallya

Respect, Successful, Poor

We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.
Pope Shenouda III

Mean, Church, Join

It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.
Seth Grahame-Smith

Book, Lost, Goal

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Different, Same, Free

Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft and NASA. Our temples are not the god-encrusted shrines of Varanasi, but Western scientific institutions like Caltech and MIT, and magazines like 'Nature' and 'Scientific American.'
Aravind Adiga

Nature, Nothing, American

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.
Robert Jay Lifton

Mother, Father, Parents

He's a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!
Reince Priebus

Family, Successful, Career

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.
Justin Long

Together, Proud, Fact

The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.
Richard H. Davis

Greatest, Son, Old

Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.
Deborah Harkness

Wonderful, Read, Films

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
John Chrysostom

Riches, Forbidden

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

Beauty, Women, Beautiful

I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that's so dated: It's not about effort, it's about outcomes.
Maynard Webb

Morning, Night, Last

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.
Paul Henderson

Somebody, Trait, Ugliest

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.
Kevin Garnett

Nice, Done, Around

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.
Louise Mensch

Work, Truth, School

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.
Anderson Cooper

Job, Done, Explain

We take pride in what we do.
Coolio

I'm fully aware that 'Doctor Who' will always, always be part of my life, and that's not something I would run away from in the slightest. I wear it with pride, definitely.
Freema Agyeman

Life, Away, Run

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