Quotes About Pride

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

In building towers into the clouds, man is proving to himself that he is above nature. And that's exactly how you feel at the top of one of these rockets of concrete and aluminum, glass, and steel: everything I can see belongs to me, no more traffic jams, gutters, sidewalks, I am man above the world. It is not the thrill of power, but of pride.

It was a strange sight to see these black men rallying around the Stars and Stripes, when white men were trampling them under foot and riddling them with bullets.

If someone throws aside their pride and begs with all their heart, and if they do so in vain, then they are never quite the same person afterwards. Something in them dies, and something else comes to life.

If someone throws aside their pride and begs with all their heart, and if they do so in vain, then they are never quite the same person afterwards. Something in them dies, and something else comes to life. Afterwards, it was as if some understanding of the world had sunk into Makepeace's soul like winter dew. She knew that she would never feel safe or loved as she had before. And she knew that she would never, ever beg that way again.

Pride comes from looking only at ourselves; meekness comes through looking at God.

There may have been a time when pride was the very center of your life. You had ambitious thoughts of yourself, your powers, desires, and aims; but now that will begin to change . . . you have been born again.

Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not in wanting to be noticed but in wanting to be the most noticed. It is not in wanting to have things but in wanting more things than others.

The destructive power of pride is that it countenances nothing higher than itself. Because of an inherent fault in our nature, man's bias is on the side of error. In our willful desire to live independently of God, we have severed the lifeline that flows from the source of all life.

Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people.

The sin of self is a deadly sin.

If the human race would turn from its evil ways and return to God, putting behind its sins of disobedience, idolatry, pride, greed, and belligerence, and all the various aberrations that lead to war, the possibility of peace exists.

Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man's goal is imitation, not redemption.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Slow down you're doing fine. You can't be everything you want to be before your time. Too bad, but it's the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need. Though you can see when you're wrong You know you can't always see when you're right. You got your passion, you got your pride But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

Love Egoist: Let me tell you this. I've done things to be appreciated but nothing to be insulted for. After all, I'm trying my hardest not to disappoint my students.

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

The only shame is to have none

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

businesses. They had new lives that they were fully engaged in and excited about. For some people, there was a fifth element:         5) The companies they'd created were going on without them and doing better than ever, and they could take pride in the way they'd handled one of the most difficult tasks faced by any CEO: succession.

The third imperative concerns an attribute that, at first glance, you might think companies have little control over, namely, collegiality. I'm referring to feelings that employees have toward one another, the mutual trust and respect they feel, the enjoyment they get out of spending time together, their willingness to work through any conflicts that might arise, their collective pride in what they do, and their collective commitment to doing it well.

What passes for patriotism is now largely measured by the flag pins in our lapels and the mouthing of pride and faith in our soldiers, sailors, and aviators. Having long since lost track of the precepts of American democracy, we've devolved into a cult of military, with its own blind faith and liturgy...