Pride Quotes · Page 97

When we fail, our pride supports us, and when we succeed it betrays us.

— Charles Colton

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

— Reed Hastings

“That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.”

— John Fowles

I've neglected my own vanity. Not that I regret it, but looking good is part of my job.

— Shefali Shah

“Pride delights in its clever schemes and reduces character to craft.”

— Jo-Ann Triner EdD

I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.

— Keith Emerson

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

— Rudyard Kipling

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

— Jane Austen

It felt wrong to be so proud of something that I had absolutely nothing to do with, but I couldn't help myself.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble…

— Thomas Merton

I really pride myself on not missing starts and being able to take the ball when it's my turn, I want to…

— Trevor Bauer

“There is no greater service than that rendered to one’s nation, no greater glory one can seek than that in the name…

— A.H. Septimius

There is no higher honour in sport than being selected to represent your country and I have certainly taken great pride in…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

One of the things that I like to pride myself on is being the guy who sees the game through till the…

— Jos Buttler

For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or give,…

— Anthony Beal

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just…

— Isabel Allende

I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't…

— Megan Whalen Turner

The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there…

— William Lane Craig

How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and…

— Anna Quindlen

The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator…

— Ambrose Bierce

Heavy laden -- that's what I am. Laden with pride, often thinking myself better than others while we have to think the…

— Diet Eman

“They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world's prince of princes. They may lift you with…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a…

— Thomas More

“For pride and avarice and envy are the three fierce sparks that set all hearts ablaze.”

— Dante Alighieri

I'm a proud woman. I'm a proud man. I'm a proud whatever people think I am.

— Rain Dove

Don't let your pride get in the way of how you truly feel.

— Anonymous

Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states.

— Barack Obama

All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.

— John Ruskin

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

— Khalil Gibran

God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.

— Horace

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I've learned to just be confident in myself and be proud of everything that I do.

— Trinity Rodman

“I remind you that I have no faith. If I sought God, I find myself.”

— Henry de Montherlant

“Because as proud as I am of you, I need to do something that makes me proud of myself" (Harper)”

— Lorelei James

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

— Jack Gleeson

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

— William Wordsworth

Guys; every time you mistreat a woman, you give up the right to be treated like a man.

— Bubbles