Quotes About Pride

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.

Pride for me has always been about holding a personal vigil within your own relationship, with nuclear being under the queer umbrella or being an ally wherever you land.

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.

Fifth place is unacceptable for U.S.A. Swimming. It stings.

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

I'm at the point where you look back on your life and reflect. I've always been an unbelievable critic of me. If we lost a game, I blamed myself every night. I'm very proud of some of the things I did as an athlete, as an executive.

It's unbelievable. I'm still trying to grasp the whole idea that I am an actually a Stanford Cardinal now. I'm actually representing an alumni that's network is around the world, and the people there are unbelievable.

He scores goals, assists, and he's got everything that you'd ask for in a striker. We, as African players, are all proud of what Didier achieved as a player. The way he holds himself is unbelievable.

People say how unbelievable and enjoyable this whole thing must be. But watching your children play quarterback, putting themselves on the line every game, getting smacked around and bloodied up... it's very, very hard.

Everybody loves tennis or soccer there. That's another reason for these unbelievable tennis players from Tandil.

To hear people mentioning me for All-Star is an unbelievable feeling.

We're in the best country in the world, it's unbelievable, I've travelled the world, I've lived in other places, from New York to the U.K. and I can never ever get out of those places what I get out of Australia and I think that's enough fuel for me to want to do well.

A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

I don't know that I ever did see Star Wars as any different. I was certainly proud that I did it.

That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons.

So really…what is war? A senseless battle between men's inflated ego.

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

One difficulty that someone who has been in military/government service during war has, is reconciling his/her pride with their horror.