Quotes About Pride

as if it were a point of honor—which, indeed, a point of art often is.

The Washington Redskin fan base represents honor, represents respect, represents pride.

For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

Honor your daughters. They are honorable.

The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)

All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.

I hope others take as much pride in the sport as I do.

My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.