Best Pride Quotes

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one’s work, the pride that makes business an art.

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can’t tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.

Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and cash flow. If you’re growing customer satisfaction, your global market share is sure to grow, too. Employee satisfaction gets you productivity, quality, pride, and creativity. And cash flow is the pulse—the key vital sign of a company.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

It’s okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn’t give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don’t like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.

A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, but to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

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.

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.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded pride of intellect, through disappointment of heart. He will reveal inordinate affections-thin gs over which we never thought He would have to get us alone.

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

All complaining comes from pride.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That’s not humility.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there’s also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn’t take one show off.

We are a country that prides itself on power and wealth, yet there are millions of children who go hungry every day. It is our responsibility, not only as a nation, but also as individuals, to get involved. So, next time you pass someone on the street who is in need, remember how lucky you are, and don’t turn away.

I take great pride in all the tremendous success we’ve enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.

… many a heart is caught in the rebound … Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

Jim Crow was king… and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive