Pride Quotes

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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on. — Ford Frick
'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals… — Huston Smith
Ordinarily, God allows these things [i.e. evil suggestions and wickedness] to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy… — Vincent de Paul
. . . [R]estlessness usually stems from pride and from being discontented with one's lot in life. — Vincent de Paul
Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride… — Thomas Raymond Kelly
All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who… — Jack Kerouac
They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves… — Liane Moriarty
Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely… — Wally Schirra
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even… — Arthur Frederick Saunders
National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques. — Bryant H. McGill
Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it. — Derwin L. Gray
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have… — Adolf Hitler
You may restrain my body and you may tear my guts out, do anything you wish, but I am still me and you can't take… — Charles Manson
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners. — Jonathan Swift
When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level. — Stephenie Meyer
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man! — Jules Verne
Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it! — Pope John Paul II
One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land… — Ramakrishna

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