Pride Quotes

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

Ignorance, Greatest, Self

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
Baruch Spinoza

Thinking, Himself, Pleasure

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Love, Music, Human

Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.
Gary Numan

Life, Sometimes, Maybe

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

Down, Loud, Rightly

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Made, Moment, Cause

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.
Bryan Adams

Anybody, Took, Penny

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

Life, Whole, Honor

Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.
Eliot Spitzer

Envy, May, Country

Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.
Christian Bale

Family, Dad, Talk

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
Loretta Lynn

Music, Best, Happen

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?
Joan Collins

Ugly, Born, Fault

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.
Paul Keating

Good, Hard, Humility

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.
Leighton Meester

Sense, Reading, Books

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.
Bob Riley

Politics, Long, Together

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

God, Truth, Spiritual

My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.
Wesley Snipes

Down, Put, Walk

All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.
Harvey Weinstein

Life, Movies, Joy

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Long, Country, Both

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.
Tim Tebow

Yourself, Humble, Everything

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.
Johnny Rotten

Nothing, National, Wars

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
J. G. Holland

Nothing, Opinion, Progress

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
Isoroku Yamamoto

Enemy, Matter, Himself

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
Daisaku Ikeda

History, Knowledge, Human

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.
Jay London

After, Cause, Private

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Political, Writing, Before

If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.
Herb Brooks

Great, Someone, Feeling

It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.
Christopher Meloni

Work, Nice, Important

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Thornton Wilder

Home, Envy, Avarice

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
Theodore Bikel

Arrogance, Culture, Nor

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