Pride Quotes - page 3

A mother's pride, a father's joy. (Walter Scott)
As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight. View quote
Colum McCann
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!" View quote
John F. Kennedy
Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss. View quote
Helen Fielding
Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. View quote
Alice Hoffman
When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility. View quote
Ken Follett
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. View quote
Hesketh Pearson
I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." (Carl Schurz)
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. View quote
Billy Graham
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. View quote
Adam Clarke
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. View quote
Herbert Croly
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. View quote
Mike Fitzpatrick
I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness. View quote
Steve Case
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. View quote
Robert Mugabe
Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all." View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
In the early ages of the world, according to the Scripture chronology there were no kings; the consequence of which was, there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion. View quote
Thomas Paine
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised. (Douglas MacArthur)
Pride comes before a fall- although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. View quote
George Eliot
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I. View quote
Ayn Rand
I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it. View quote
Ayn Rand