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

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
Voltaire

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.
Fred W. Friendly

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

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

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Nicolas Chamfort

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

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
Art Modell

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
John W. Foster

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.
George Gillespie

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.
Leonard Boswell

The response to Pride has been so overwhelming. I mean, people have really loved it. And it's so rewarding because we had such a fun time making that film, and it was made with so much heart, that it's lovely that people seem to be responding in kind to that.
Rosamund Pike

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

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

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Samuel Butler

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

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

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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