Quotes About Pride

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out.

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

Love's humility is love's true pride.

I feel very fortunate to go surrounded by love. I'm proud of the life I lived.

Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.

Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.

Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Minnesotans really think they run the whole world, I love that.