Quotes about pride
pride live-your-life what-if
In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life? Chris Noth
pride helping-others people
You – help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects. Chris Murray
pride gay people
Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the gifts we bear, /So heavy and so painful the fashioning of them, /So long the road given us to travel them. A separate people, /We bring a gift to celebrate each other, /’Tis a gift to be gay! / Feel the pride of it! Harry Hay
pride men years
The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are the unseen tides that shape our days and our years. Hal Borland
pride purpose vices
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. Horace
pride ice accomplishment
If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment. Herb Brooks
pride civilization alive
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. Henry David Thoreau
pride people firsts
Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling. Jeff Foxworthy
pride artist names
Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries. James A. Michener
pride earth empires
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth. James A. Garfield
pride air people
Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us. Jackie Tabick
pride thinking discrepancies-between
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they refused to adopt the Arabic language, and it's a great point of pride to them that Persian culture and the Persian language and Persian literature survived the conversion to Islam. And the conversion to Islam also was for most of them not the Sunni majority form, but the Shia one. So there's a great discrepancy between Iranian society and many other of what we think of as Arab Muslim States and systems. Christopher Hitchens
pride people sometimes
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in. Gary Ackerman
pride self personality
When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive. Fulton J. Sheen
pride thinking blood
The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.
pride cost prosperity
Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear. Hosea Ballou
pride joy cinema
All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world. Harvey Weinstein
pride liberty peculiar
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions. James Bryce
pride vanity static
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings. Jacques Barzun
pride men vanity
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is manifested by individuals here and there; but the web of human history as a whole appears to be woven from folly and childish vanity, often, too, from puerile wickedness and love of destruction: with the result that at the end one is puzzled to know what idea to form of our species which prides itself so much on its advantages. Immanuel Kant
pride proud looks
Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud. Graham Greene
pride thinking order
A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
pride people chicago
Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride. Giuliana Rancic
pride men expression
I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation. Gil Scott-Heron
pride talent artistic
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received. Igor Stravinsky
pride world offense
It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended. Hugh Blair
pride forgiving accepting
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness. Frederick Buechner
pride thinking
Pride is what you can afford or think you can afford. Fay Weldon
pride men devil
Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men. Ezra Taft Benson
pride sin-of-pride sin
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
pride pits
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.
pride men competition
Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.
pride cutting people
Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else’s. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.