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Quotes About Pride

Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don't have pride issues.
~ Heather Bixler, Breaking Pride
I don't care what people say, I mind myself as who and what I am 'cause I'm born this way.
~ Jillbert Sumbidan
I'm proud of them, in a way. My little gold stars for surviving. For thriving. They aren't just mistakes.
~ A.R. Kahler
Don't aspire to be the next somebody else. Be proud and embrace being the first and only you!
~ Tammy Ferebee
Vanity dulls the senses.
~ Nadja Sam
Prouder than a preschooler showin' refrigerator art!
~ K.D. Harp
wisdom is great, but sometimes, those who think they are wiser than others can become the otherwise
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness.
~ Heather Bixler, Breaking Pride
Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.
~ Heather Bixler, Breaking Pride
all theisms—Judaism, Christianity and Islam—the difference between the self and God is radical. Pride is the fundamental sin of human beings.
~ James W Sire
Will we act, or will we sit on our hands? I don't want to show up on that day only to hear God say, "This nation—where is My church? There's still too much sin, too much covenant with Baal, too much pornography, too much perversion, too much materialism, greed, pride, and arrogance. They have missed their hour of grace; only judgment awaits.
~ James W. Goll
It is the spirit of the South to defend everything belonging to it. The North is too cosmopolitan and tolerant for such a spirit.
~ James Weldon Johnson
It is a struggle; for though the white man of the South may be too proud to admit it, he is, nevertheless, using in the contest his best energies; he is devoting to it the greater part of his thought and much of his endeavor.
~ James Weldon Johnson
It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.
~ James Weldon Johnson
I felt leap within me pride that I was colored; and I began to form wild dreams of bringing glory and honor to the Negro race.
~ James Weldon Johnson
I know you don't like him," said her mother. "Your father has always been a complicated man." "I'll say," said Alex. "But you're complicated, too. And he loves you," Barbra said. "He always thought you were smart and capable, and no one was prouder of you when you graduated from law school. He said, 'She can get me out of jail someday.
~ Jami Attenberg
an insidious form of pride had crept into my heart and taken up residence: the pride of suffering. p 297
~ Jamie Langston Turner
don't let the pride take over reason
~ Jan Guillou
If we look in the Mirror, we Know who we Are hope You are Proud on that Moment. Jan Jansen
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Let others be Proud on You, when they look a Image of You
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
I felt a sense of pride swell in me. Not for myself but for these two women. They were everything I wanted to be someday—successful, happy, dedicated to their town and its people, and most importantly they knew who they were.
~ Jana Deleon
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
~ Jane Addams
To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.
~ Jane Addams
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
~ Jane Austen