Pride Quotes - page 4

In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. (Thomas Hardy)
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man. View quote
Francis Parkman
However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having "smitten a sleeping enemy"; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack. View quote
Isoroku Yamamoto
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else. View quote
Franz Grillparzer
There is nothing that comes closer to true humility than the intelligence. It is impossible to feel pride in one's intelligence at the moment when one really and truly exercises it. View quote
Simone Weil
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!! View quote
Bruce Lee
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness. View quote
Robert Jordan
Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh. View quote
Robert Jordan
Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me. View quote
Robert Jordan
For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain. (Fernando Pessoa)
I guess those of us who have been with NASA kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars. View quote
Alan Shepard
We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace. View quote
John Ruskin
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans. View quote
Jane Addams
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents. View quote
Harper Lee
If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him. View quote
Ramakrishna
The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build. View quote
Philip Johnson
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. View quote
Alexis Carrel
I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet. View quote
Walter Raleigh
For a long time-always, in fact-I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn't able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm. (Emil Cioran)
But, braggart demons, we postpone our end: how could we renounce the display of our freedom, the show of our pride? View quote
Emil Cioran
I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do. View quote
Joe Satriani
I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer. View quote
Morrissey
'T 's pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul I think the Romans call it stoicism. View quote
Joseph Addison