Pride Quotes

“It never bothered me when people would say, "You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq." It bothered me when he said it.”

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”

“There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. "Good pride" represents our dignity and self-respect. "Bad pride" is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.”

“When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.”

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”

“I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.”

“None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.”

“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.”

“I would rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race.”

“Yes, if I could have kings as my competitors.”

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”

“Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

"The mother who hears her son called a wise man will rejoice more than she did at his birth."

Thiruvalluvar

"Pride, Envy, and Avarice are the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire."

Dante Alighieri

"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."

"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

"Breathes there the man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, this is my own, my native land!"

Walter Scott

“My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.”

David Lauren

“My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.”

Harry S. Truman

“The son's duty to his father is to make the world ask, "What penance did his father do to have such a son?"

Thiruvalluvar

“I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd than what I fear; for always I am Caesar.”

“The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.”

Charles Dudley Warner

“I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority."