Top 1200 National Pride Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

If you're Maasai Mara National Park in Kenya, if you're in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, you don't get out of your vehicle and go walking around amid the lions and the leopards. You stay in your Land Rover. You stay in your safari van, and you look out the windows or you look out the pop top at these animals. I know by experience how badly that can work out if you violate those guidelines.

Being physical is something I pride myself on.

I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.

I take a lot of pride in being healthy.

I take a lot of pride in being Nigerian

Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household.

How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave — while provoking others to try to make their mark? A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

I pride myself in helping people in the community however I can.

As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.

I feel as if I'm God's champion, and I have a lot of pride in that.

Since the Donald Trump election, which has involved this administration making direct attacks on press freedoms, you're actually seeing a certain amount of rallying and reinvigoration by the national press in terms of covering national issues and the presidency. The Washington Post and The New York Times, Mother Jones, ProPublica and a lot of other places, they've actually done some really strong work when confronted with this administration. But the resources that you used to have at state and local level aren't there anymore.

My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also through envy, envying our glory, our happiness. Why do we envy the happiness and the goods of others? Because we are proud; we should like to be the sole possessors of talents, riches, of the esteem and love of all the world! We hate our equals, because they are our equals; our inferiors, from the fear that they may equal us; our superiors, because they are above us.

I've got the ability to control my destiny, and I take pride in that.

Take pride in yourself. Be your own person.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity being resolutely imposed on the peripheries of the island by its centre. For many poorer and less literate Britons, Scotland, Wales and England remained more potent rallying calls than Great Britain, except in times of danger from abroad. And even among the politically educated, it was common to think in terms of dual nationalities, not a single national identity.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.

Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.

You need to take pride in what God has given you.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

Sunlight will renew your pride.

The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall

I've lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.

I celebrate those who wear their red poppies with pride.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I pride myself on average, not home runs.

Pride also has a bill! Get ready to pay it!

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ; we would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can't be tolerated in Syria. I'm talking about the normal reaction of the people. If it's not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn't have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn't make national war.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not” “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can” “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity” “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found that only 12 percent of those who use a gun to resist assault are injured, as are 17 percent of those who use a gun to resist robbery. These percentages are 27 and 25 percent, respectively, if they passively comply with the felon's demands. Three times as many were injured if they used other means of resistance.

My dad took a lot of pride in what he did for a living.

You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human.

I pride myself on making plays and being open.

Anybody that was from the old Pride days is a fighter.

Whatever you don't turn into PRAISE turns into PRIDE.

A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.

If I added to their pride of America, I am happy.

God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.

The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to posses the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will, and direct the national force; and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned, in spite of the legions which surround it.

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it.

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

I pride myself on buying really good presents.

I pride myself on being Japanese American.

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.