Browsing Topic 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.

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.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I accept the term extremist with pride.

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

Sell. Don’t apologize for it and don’t be afraid to beg with a positive, up-beat attitude. Tell prospects you want their business and you will kick ass once you’ve earned it. Have no shame, pride doesn’t pay the rent.

When I look back on my life, I see mistakes and heartache. When I look in the mirror, I see strength, learned lessons, and pride in myself.

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.

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

If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God’s benefits and so offend him.

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.

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.

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you — and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

Never does any pride enter the heart of a man ex­cept that his in­tel­li­gence de­creases by the same amount.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

There’s a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

The proud man is forsaken of God.

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

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

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.

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn’t know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

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.

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

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.