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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. (Quote by - Petrarch)

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. (Quote by - James Madison)

I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband. (Quote by - Julie Benz)

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)

Pride is the mask of one's own faults. (Quote by - Jewish Proverb)

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is. (Quote by - John Chrysostom)

He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. (Quote by - William Penn)

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. (Quote by - Joe Paterno)

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. (Quote by - Adam Clarke)

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. (Quote by - Theodor Adorno)

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride (Quote by - Jonathan Aitken)

I always took a great deal of pride in being original. (Quote by - Roger Miller)

A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)

Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them. (Quote by - Steve Kanaly)

Shame is pride's cloak. (Quote by - William Blake)

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. (Quote by - Isoroku Yamamoto)

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations. (Quote by - Claude Bernard)

Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone (Quote by - Egyptian Proverb)

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. (Quote by - John Zimmerman)

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)

As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that. (Quote by - Roy Clark)

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America. (Quote by - Joe Baca)

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)

The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. (Quote by - John Ruskin)

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride. (Quote by - John Lennon)

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride. (Quote by - Nancy Lopez)

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it. (Quote by - Maurice Gibb)

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride (Quote by - Charleszetta Waddles)

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. (Quote by - Gary Ryan Blair)

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling. (Quote by - Adrienne Rich)

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. (Quote by - Horace)

He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it Cry 'No recovery.' (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution. (Quote by - Alan Paton)

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. (Quote by - Joseph Story)

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur. (Quote by - Gilbert Parker)

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. (Quote by - John Ruskin)

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride. (Quote by - Jay London)

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, - His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love. (Quote by - Jose Bergamin)

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. (Quote by - David Foster Wallace)

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barton)

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete. (Quote by - Linford Christie)

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool. (Quote by - Thomas V. Smith)

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny (Quote by - Mark Twain)

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love. (Quote by - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger)

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier. (Quote by - Susan Lieberman)

She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home-it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. (Quote by - Margaret Truman)

Pride ruined the angels. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way. (Quote by - Tom Cruise)

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? (Quote by - Theodore Bikel)

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. (Quote by - George Chapman)

I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession. (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)

Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too. (Quote by - Lorrie Fair)

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy. (Quote by - Zhu Rongji)

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. (Quote by - George Chapman)

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. (Quote by - George Santayana)

What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. (Quote by - Abu Bakr)

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. (Quote by - Conrad Veidt)

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. (Quote by - J. G. Holland)

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots. (Quote by - Genevieve Gorder)

So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm. (Quote by - Kevin Garnett)

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up. (Quote by - Dan O'Brien)

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. (Quote by - William Knox)

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate. (Quote by - Margaret Truman)

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. (Quote by - Isaac Bickerstaff)

Pride the first peer and president of hell. (Quote by - Daniel Defoe)

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride. (Quote by - Muriel Rukeyser)

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured. (Quote by - English proverb)

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in. (Quote by - Gary Ackerman)

Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage (Quote by - Muslih-uddin Sadi)

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. (Quote by - Fulton J. Sheen)

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Pride is the shirt of the soul, put on first and put off last (Quote by - George Swinnock)

Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well. (Quote by - Graham Coxon)

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody. (Quote by - Loretta Lynn)

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. (Quote by - Hesketh Pearson)

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to he right. (Quote by - Joni Mitchell)

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. (Quote by - Edward Irving)

I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid. (Quote by - Carroll O'Connor)

Pride had rather out of the way than go behind (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. (Quote by - Michael Jackson)

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. (Quote by - Murray Rothbard)

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. (Quote by - Thorstein Veblen)

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. (Quote by - Arthur H. Sulzberger)

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. (Quote by - Paul Bryant)

Humility is pride in God. (Quote by - Austin O'Malley)

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist. (Quote by - Wayne Kramer)

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Pride is the mask we make of our faults (Quote by - Hebrew Proverb)

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one. (Quote by - Francesca Annis)

They take their pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars (Quote by - William Wordsworth)

O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. (Quote by - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon)

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. (Quote by - Paul Bryant)

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride. (Quote by - Corazon Aquino)

You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. (Quote by - W. S. Gilbert)

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)

I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy. (Quote by - Rosamund Pike)

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. (Quote by - Henry Bolingbroke)

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. (Quote by - Joanna Baillie)

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written. (Quote by - William Faulkner)

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father (Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. (Quote by - Giorgos Seferis)

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel. (Quote by - Ben Harper)

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. (Quote by - Mary Roberts Rinehart)

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth (Quote by - Gertrude Franklin Atherton)

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men (Quote by - Dante Alighieri)

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride. (Quote by - Paul Martin)

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility. (Quote by - Paul Keating)

So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it. (Quote by - Chris Hadfield)

I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done. (Quote by - Anderson Cooper )

Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU. (Quote by - Steve Blake)

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates. (Quote by - Johnny Rotten)

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. (Quote by - Jules Renard)

As soon as there was two there was pride (Quote by - John Donne)

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride. (Quote by - W. Edwards Deming)

The proud hate pride in others. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country. (Quote by - Christopher Dodd)

And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to. (Quote by - Rosamund Pike)

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. (Quote by - Susanna Moodie)

From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore. (Quote by - John Ratzenberger)

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

If you are a housewife, take pride in that. (Quote by - Anthea Turner)

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic (Quote by - Queen Victoria)

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. (Quote by - Jane Austen)

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan. (Quote by - John Thorn )

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. (Quote by - Herbert Croly)

My pride fell with my fortunes. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together. (Quote by - Bob Riley)

Pride, perceiving humility honourable, often borrows her cloak. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!" (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling. (Quote by - Jeff Foxworthy)

Brown v. Board helped unite us all, and gave us all great pride knowing we all are truly E Pluribus Unum - one people out of many. (Quote by - Mike Rogers)

What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea Till that the weary very means do ebb? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)

I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason. (Quote by - Joe Shuster)

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion. (Quote by - Albert J. Nock)

I look upon pride as a sin. (Quote by - Tommy Lee Jones)

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore. (Quote by - Sandra Bernhard)

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. (Quote by - Georges Bernanos)

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Masillon)

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put. (Quote by - Paul Getty)

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies (Quote by - Edwin Hubbel Chapin)

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)

I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness. (Quote by - Steve Case)

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was. (Quote by - Zebulon Pike)

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day. (Quote by - Paul Thomas Anderson)

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. (Quote by - Herb Brooks)

There is a certain noble pride, through which merits shine brighter than through modesty. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real (Quote by - Thomas Merton)

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

As proud as Lucifer. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are. (Quote by - Nancy Lopez)

The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. (Quote by - George A. Smith)

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. (Quote by - Horace Mann)

One may be humble out of pride. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in. (Quote by - Robert Jay Lifton)

Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister (Quote by - Thorstein Veblen)

I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it. (Quote by - Linford Christie)

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country. (Quote by - John G. D. Clark)

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment. (Quote by - Ray Kroc)

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride. (Quote by - Boris Kodjoe)

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel. (Quote by - Aeschylus)

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man. (Quote by - Alain Rene Le Sage)

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. (Quote by - Voltaire)

So it's a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could. (Quote by - Blair Underwood)

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. (Quote by - J. D. Salinger)

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. (Quote by - William Blake)

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people. (Quote by - Camryn Manheim)

Pride will spit in pride's face. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut. (Quote by - Todd Solondz)

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride. (Quote by - Janet Street-Porter)

The sun will set without thy assistance. (Quote by - The Talmud)

Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive. (Quote by - Lou Brock)

At every trifle, scorn to take offence; that always shows great pride, or little sense (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Pride and excess bring disaster for man. (Quote by - Xun Zi)

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box. (Quote by - Christopher Meloni)

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. (Quote by - William Gilbert)

Pride comes before a fall. (Quote by - Proverb)

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given. (Quote by - Robert Hunter)

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. (Quote by - Henry Burton)

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it's something I pride myself on. (Quote by - Richard Gough)

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. (Quote by - Josh Billings)