Top 1200 Excessive Pride Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.

It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.

What I pride myself on mostly is making the game easier for my teammates.

I take a great deal of pride in pitching deep into ballgames.

Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll… well, I’ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much.

I take a lot of pride in being myself. I'm comfortable with who I am.

I want to do something that I'm proud of and that I can look back on with pride of accomplishment.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

I love competing against the best and I take a lot of pride in it.

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

It is a matter of pride to get boxing gloves from Stallone himself.

Obviously, there are nights in any job when you don't want to be there, but that's when the pride factor comes in.

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

Being robbed hurts - not physically, but from what it does to your pride.

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.

I feel like I take a lot of pride in the patience that I play with.

There is no shame in falling down but there is pride in getting back up.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

I can say with pride that I have a brother who served with distinction in the Indian Army.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.

Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.

Pressure to produce over the short term - a gun to the head of everyone - encourages excessive risk taking which manifests itself in several ways - fully invested posture at all times, the use of leverage, and a market centric orientation that makes it difficult to stand apart from the crowd and take a long term perspective.

Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.

I think we have to show some pride in the jersey that we are wearing, and can’t quit.

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.

The path marked Pride will lead you over a cliff.

Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

I believe that I'm one of the best defenders in this league; I take a lot of pride in that.

When I was barely 21, I was making my Pride debut. That was at the beginning of my career.

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

I take a lot of pride in my first '92 gold medal.

Weakness leaves, pride comes in. Confidence grows. Successful life.

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.

We live in a very risky world and investors should not get "carried away" with excessive allocations to equities, or for that matter, real estate. As always asset allocation and low cost and broad diversification will be essential in earning one's fair share of whatever returns our financial markets are generous enough to bestow upon us.

We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.

Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.

I can take credit for only two things: pride and sin.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

I think the joy, the satisfaction and the pride of representing Brazil is a lot.

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.

Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.

There is no greater pride and glory than to be a perfect instrument of the Master.

My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

My mother always told me to take pride in my appearance.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

There's always a certain pride in getting the job done properly.

I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do.