Pride Quotes - Page 48

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

Have you got a Beemer, an Audi, a Saab or a Volvo that replaced a Ford, Vauxhall, Rover or Nissan? Many Brits have. Your first Beemer. A particularly nice smell of leather. Something rather plain but satisfactory about the interior. And that lovely enamel wotsit in the middle of the steering wheel. A moment of quiet 'because I'm worth it' pride.

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

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.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.

Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take pride in our accomplishment, and we find ourselves back at square one.

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.

Ah, the first step in humility: Listening.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

To be part of the creation, I must act humbly. I'll take that over a goddess any day!

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn't do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We owe the ancestors that. So many of the souls who died in bondage just want us to recognize their struggle.