Top 1200 Excessive Pride Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.

There are times this stony heart of mine feels a burst of British pride.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.

I love Nogueira. I fought with him two times in Japan in PRIDE.

I pride myself on playing just about every position on the court.

I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.

I take pride in taking the hard road and prove to people I earned it.

A lot of characters I've played have a certain amount of strength, pride, and leadership.

I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.

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

When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.

If the Russians have gone too far in subjecting the child and his peer group to conformity to a single set of values imposed by the adult society, perhaps we have reached the point of diminishing returns in allowing excessive autonomy and in failing to utilize the constructive potential of the peer group in developing social responsibility and consideration for others.

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes

'Fringe' has been a point of pride. I share the passion for the show that the fans have.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of overstimulation. Sometimes I think it's like a drug; more is more, and you can never get enough. The older I get, the more I crave that excessive aesthetic. It's never going to satisfy me.

We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.

I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.

I realized that many men are happy to play a supporting role to another man, but they are much less happy to play a supporting role to a woman. People are saying we need more females in our industry and we need more female-driven stories, but that takes the men of bankable star quality to come forward and play supporting roles in those films, because ultimately that's what the women have always done. We've always lent our name value to male-centric stories, and now we're going to have to ask the men to swallow their pride, because it seems that it's about pride.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.

Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.

Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter only; and materialism, in its turn, hurries them on with mad impatience to these same delights; such is the fatal circle within which democratic nations are driven round. It were well that they should see the danger and hold back.

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

If there's one thing that chafes French pride, it's seeing the British steal the limelight.

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain.

The success of an archery shot may bring food to the hunter's starving family, or may constitute a horrible murder. But these outcomes are irrelevant to the assessment of that shot as a hunter-archery shot, as an attempt to hit prey without running excessive risk of failure.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

Perish each thought of human pride, let God alone be magnified.

The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.

If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?

After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within.

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

Subway is a real point of pride. We have influenced the way people eat.

I do a pretty good job preparing myself. That's something I take pride in.

Defense is something I've always taken pride in from college and high school.

Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.

Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little diffident about mine. But there is no harm done; I hope you will soon be over this slight jealousy and be convinced that nothing can change the genuine affection Our Lord has given me for you

I always tried to pride myself on my versatility - I can't just be the 'iSpy' guy.

One thing I take great pride in is that my case was the one that started the decline of the Mafia.