Quotes About Pride

O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!

Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.

Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.

A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

The natural state of a human being is dignity.

If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating.