Pride Quotes

"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."
-Dale Carnegie

"Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals."
-Fulton J. Sheen

"Pride is the mask we make of our faults."
-Hebrew Proverb

"Pride sullies the noblest character."
-Claudianus

"The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion."
-Democritus

"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us."
-Charles Caleb Colton

"I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution."
-Alan Paton

"To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to."
-Moliere

"A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride."
-Nancy Lopez

"Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system."
-Stuart Stevens

"Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride."
-Jonathan Aitken

"Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big butts."
-Tyra Banks

"Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself."
-Paul Bryant

"Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone."
-Egyptian Proverb

"The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

""I have done that," says my memory. "I cannot have done that" -- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last -- memory yields."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Depression occurs when one looks back with no pride, and looks forward with no hope."
-Robert Frost

"Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy."
-Benjamin Franklin

"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks."
-Joe Paterno

"Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned."
-Ayn Rand

"Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense."
-C. S. Lewis

"But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."
-George Eliot

"Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend."
-Jules Renard

"I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here."
-Wil Wheaton

"I think (the players) adjusted, and that's on them. We went to man, but these guys are seniors and they have a lot of pride in themselves and in the way they play. They weren't going to let one guy get 50 on them. They made it happen on the court."
-Tom Souder

"I am trying to make a very strong attempt to keep my students happy, ... That is very much my pride to please my children."
-Ann Hill