Quotes about Pride
This is a nation that loves our freedom, loves our country.
— George W. Bush
Pride is corrosive, and it rubs off. You're going to have a tough time developing Christlike humility and thinking of yourself with sober judgment if your close friends are arrogant, full of pride, and looking down their noses at everyone else.
— Bill Hybels
Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.
— KP Yohannan
Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?
— Mathew Knowles
My only desire was to defend and honour the Inter jersey in any country all over the world.
— Javier Zanetti
Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
When a man or woman is truly honest (not just working at it) it is virtually impossible to insult them personally. There is nothing there to insult. Those who were truly ready for the kingdom were just such people. Their inner poverty of spirit and rigorous honesty had set them free. They were people who had nothing to be proud of.
— Brennan Manning
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.
— Henry David Thoreau
Two sturdy oaks I mean, which side by side, Withstand the winter's storm, And spite of wind and tide, Grow up the meadow's pride, For both are strong. Above they barely touch, but undermined Down to their deepest source, Admiring you shall find Their roots are intertwined Insep'rably.
— Henry David Thoreau
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other;
— Herman Melville
I think I'm just proudest to be the lady who was asked to play Mary Poppins. She's such a wonderful character, and there's so much tremendous talent out there. So I feel very lucky to be the one who got to play her.
— Julie Andrews
The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.
— Desmond Tutu