Quotes About Pride

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Would anyone choose Hell over Heaven? YES! Why? Pride. They don't want to go in the only way you can go in, on your knees. They don't want to admit they are a failure, that their life is a mess.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

Let me tell you something: for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.

It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

To captain Liverpool in any game is special, but to do it in a final, would be one of the proudest moments of my life.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.

Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

The hardest word for me to say is please. Being poor, you've sometimes got to ask for stuff - food, toothpaste, even soap. I don't want to ask anybody for anything.

I understood your hope came not from some belief in the triumph of good or the kindness of politicians and bureaucrats. Your hope came from within; something inside you harbored and nourished a spark that had not been squelched and would always burn inside you and those you were able to touch. I came to believe that light inside came from the pride of knowing you were part of a long line in history that could survive.