Pride Quotes · Page 189

As in the natural life a child must have a father and a mother, so in the supernatural life of grace a…

— Louis de Montfort

“All our opinions are false and don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. We live ,we die. We as individuals don’t…

— Ilwaad Isa

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even…

— Robert Jordan

If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we…

— Henry B. Eyring

“And after that until the end, there was no relief from being a girl with chores that she wasn’t being paid for,…

— Ru Freeman

No one likes a pushy parent, and, 'pride' being one of the seven deadly sins, I needed to tread very carefully when…

— Dominic Holland

Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense…

— Ellen Hopkins

... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb…

— Lorenzo Scupoli

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has…

— John Galt

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that…

— Charles Lamb

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation,…

— Johnny Cash

Regardless of what happens, I want to be part of a successful England team and if I have to swallow my pride…

— Jack Butland

We will rebuild our country with American workers, American iron, American aluminum, American steel. We will create millions of new jobs and…

— Donald Trump

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward…

— John F. Kennedy

Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors…

— Lewis Howard Latimer

Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride,…

— John Armstrong

I have taken pride in my pain, knowing full well that I am stronger than those who have none and despite the…

— A. J. Odudu

This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at…

— Honore de Balzac

Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should…

— Rush Limbaugh

I pride myself on being the nicest person in the room. My grandmother always told me, 'Manners will take you where money…

— Charlamagne Tha God

It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my…

— John Piper

Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie…

— Rick Riordan

“If we want to live perfectly happy lives...we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy…

— Jason Versey

If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible…

— Alexis Carrel

Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each…

— Bill Shankly

The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in…

— Winston Churchill

“I wouldn’t have minded a rather more detailed conclusion (to Pride and Prejudice) — say, a twenty-page sex scene featuring the two…

— Anonymous

If on creation's morn the king of heaven To shrubs and flowers a sovereign lord had given, O beauteous rose, he had…

— Henry George Bohn

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all…

— Lord Byron

Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to…

— Stella Young

Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the…

— P. G. Wodehouse

don't talk about legacy. I have a job to do, and I'm doing it. And I'm not expecting a legacy and I'm…

— Frank Lowy

I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and…

— Yukio Mishima

Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that."…

— Daniel Clowes

One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational,…

— Nicholas Negroponte

There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played…

— Trombone Shorty

Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries,…

— Sydney J. Harris