Quotes About Pride

I'm a Detroit Tigers fan through and through.

Sometimes people need to think of themselves as lions or tigers. Even panthers.

We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.

You want to be able to run seam routes and do all that, but to have something that you can hang your hat on and know that it's going to convert first downs, that's what tight ends are paid to do. And I've certainly taken a lot of pride in that over the years.

That's what the Olympics are about, is these tight games that bring out performances that make us really proud.

Although we have to do a tight three-point turn when leaving work, I pride myself on my driving skills. I'm not intimidated by a tight spot of parallel parking, passed my driving test first time and was always the designated driver in my group of friends.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

As "pride is the beginning of all sin," (Eccl. x, 15) so humility is the foundation of all virtue. Learn to be really humble and not, as the hypocrite, humble merely in appearance.

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

Confidence is the outgrowth of positive qualities, whereas pride is the outgrowth of negative qualities among positive qualities.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

Memmius:) But who are these that have thus taken the government into their hands? Men of the most abandoned character, of blood-stained hands, of insatiable avarice, of enormous guilt, and of matchless pride; men by whom integrity, reputation, public spirit, and indeed every thing, whether honorable or dishonorable, is converted to a means of gain.

quae apud alios iracundia dicitur, ea in imperio superbia atque crudelitas appellatur.

A man's pride needs careful handling.

Overconfidence leads to carelessness, which leads just as surely to disaster.

If someone called me fat, that affects me way more than someone calling me a f----t. I think just because I've accepted that, if someone calls me a f----t, it's like, I am gay and I'm proud to be gay so there's no issues there. If something calls you fat, that's something I want to change.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.

Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the fool commands the wise, The noble-with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make t

A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

It is bad enough to see one's own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people's rubbish fathered upon oneself.

My country, 'tis of thee,Sweet land of liberty,Of thee I sing:Land where my fathers died,Land of the pilgrims' pride,From every mountainsideLet freedom ring.