2,116 Quotes About Pride

It doesn't exactly fill me with pride." "For what, being a white man?" "For being a carbon based life-form.

If she had cried and sobbed and seemed frightened, Miss Minchin might almost have had more patience with her. She was a woman who liked to domineer and feel her power, and as she looked at Sara's pale little steadfast face and heard her proud little voice, she felt quite as if her mind was being set at naught.

- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not proud of it, for in fact I had nothing to do with it.

Talk is cheap for the man who boasts his worth, you don't have to take my word to know who i am.

The most stubborn of creatures often make the most decisive individuals. Keep your pride in your tenacity, my dear. This world would be a lesser place if women such as us did not have that.

Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a ‘ship’, regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of the ‘sea’. And it takes pride for the ‘small stone’ to sink when dropped into the ‘sea’! Go with humility then!

Some priests unfaithful to the "memory" of Jesus insist more on the festive aspect and the fraternal dimension of the Mass than on the bloody sacrifice of Christ on the Cross. The importance of interior dispositions and the necessity of reconciling ourselves with God by agreeing to let ourselves be purified by the sacrament of confession are no longer in fashion today.

If the laws of traffic are honored, then the car will not collide anywhere. If you abide by all kinds of laws of this world, then you will not collide anywhere.

Pride and self-hate belong inseparably together; they are two expressions of one process.