Pride Quotations | Page 5

Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

Let's start rolling with it now. This is a good test, because they're No. 1 in the nation in rushing and we pride ourselves in our rush defense. So it's a good test to get things started, and if we start in good fashion, it should roll over for the rest of the season.

Since I found the Company of the Holy and met the Guru, the demon of pride has departed.

Me and Ann just came in and said the obvious things. We have to take more pride in boxing out. We have to take more pride in knowing who we are guarding and rotating on defense. We have to know what we are doing out there, and in that first half we didn't look like it at all.

Meditate and listen to the Name of the Lord, and give it to everyone. In this way, the filth of lifetimes of karma shall be removed, and egotistical pride shall vanish from your mind.

Meghan needs to build on this. This is something she needs to take some pride in and remember.

Mentally, St. Paul's is a very tough team. They play with pride and believe in what they are doing. We are just establishing that this season after coming off of a tough year last season.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Mike takes a lot of pride in his ball handling with the play-action. He had a chance to learn from a very good ball handler in Joe Sanford.

She doesn't mind. E takes great pride in that.

She has represented her club, state and country with enormous pride over the years, and her genuine love and passion for the game is quite inspirational.

She is the catalyst, the quarterback, she is the engine and everybody else feeds off of her. I can?t say enough about her. She?s my pride and joy, like a daughter, and she takes the game seriously.

When you put your name on a fund, there's a certain element of pride, of not wanting to be embarrassed or neglectful. . . . It forces you to want to work just a little harder to be right.

Many of our core items are made fresh. Our chicken, eggplant and veal parmesan are all made fresh daily. Our lasagna is made fresh every day. We take great pride in making everything fresh.

Sean has earned the support of both the Pride Agenda and Victory Fund because he is what we are constantly searching for from our communitya quality candidate, well versed in public service.

She takes a lot of pride in what she does. And you don't necessarily see that in a lot of teenagers.

She takes such pride in her defense, and I could see the frustration on her face. I told her she was going to be fine, and she was. She changed the game for us. She was the difference.

So many of the guys in the current team come from Caledonia and take great pride in their area.

She was and is a symbol of pride for her country.

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.

An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by just dreaming. It's nice to dream. But it's the work ethic and pride that makes you get to that mountain top and that level of success.

Whatever other children learn in a year, let Bahá’í children learn in a month. The heart of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá longeth, in its love, to find that Bahá’í young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainments. There is no question but that they will exert all their efforts, their energies, their sense of pride, to acquire the sciences and arts.

When they wake up this Christmas Day, and they're away from home, they also can take enormous pride in being part of a really historical year.

The difference between Pride Jaguar and the Drago-Kazov? A Jaguar will stab you in the back to gain an advantage. a Dragan will stab you just to see if his knife is sharp.

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.

The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride. He is the true martial artist--a man so strong inside that he has no need to demonstrate his power.

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the oppo site: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as "mushy.

William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride.

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

The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

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. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity.

We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world

Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his ‘Yes’ to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony…

At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further." If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, "If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

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

I have never been more proud of any team I have ever been a part of. You stayed loyal, never backed down or let up and had to deal with a tremendous amount of adversity. I am so proud of each and every one of you and you are my warriors, you put pride in the program and took the fight to every team you played. You define the word character by how you reacted to adversity.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

(Hampton) isn't the most gifted athlete that we have, yet he takes so much pride in how he plays, he's on every special team and I just thought it would send a strong message to our special-team guys that we appreciate them and that's the type of effort and that's the type of play that we're looking for.

The only thing I told our guys was this was for pride and in a tough environment. The lights were on, and we responded really well.

He is very special in the sense of what he has gone though. He has this inner drive, wherever it comes from. Everybody would love to have what he has inside in him. He has seen a lot, he has been through a lot, I can really see the drive he has. He has that special something 'it' inside him. He just has so much pride in him.

He led our military to historic achievements in some of the most trying times America has known. And today, he retires with the pride and appreciation of our entire nation,

There are teams that have got in on the last game. It's about pride and professionalism. In this situation, the fact that we have to make up some points, some ground, if we can't muster up a desire to compete, then we don't deserve to be in the playoffs.

He is one of the more dedicated people in the building to put out a quality paper. He catches a lot of things and takes a great deal of pride in his work.

I am sure the pride of the Clermont players will be strong at home.

I am sure the pride of the Clermont players will be strong at home. They have got some very good players, and not a lot of teams beat Clermont in Clermont. We must go there to win, and five victories from six starts in this group would be a very strong achievement.

I am trying to make a very strong attempt to keep my students happy, ... That is very much my pride to please my children.

I did because of the people we had, and a good part of that has been continuity. We have young guys like Robert McCune who weren't up the whole season but developed, and then we had our consistent bunch that take great pride in their work.

If only we had been lucky and won two out of those eight losses, we could have been in the top four. Now, we're just making the most out of what we have. It's a long shot, but my players still have pride in themselves.

I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

I can tell you this explicitly, that nobody was looking at this as just a third-place game. There was a lot of pride on the line.

I can't speak for everyone, but for myself personally, I pride myself on my conditioning. But today kind of let me down. They have tough guys.

From today, we must learn to smile again. We must learn to appreciate the good in each other and we must feel pride in being Ghanaians.

Fumbles are something I pride myself on not doing, ... My goal is zero. The season just started, and I got two in one game. Now I've got to go back and redo my goals.

French films are increasingly taking pride of place. The number of French films at the Festival is second only to the US and Canada.

I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.

I am confident that baseball's many millions of fans will agree that this great game can move forward with pride and honor as we also investigate those who may be implicated in these matters.

If words cannot console this loss, they also cannot fully express the pride that all Canadians have felt on the exemplary way (Canadian forces) have carried out their duty, ... There are so many questions. ... How has this happened? I want to assure the families and the people of Canada that these questions will be answered.

If anybody sees the work at the Defense Language Institute and the Naval Postgraduate School, they come away just overwhelmed with pride and excitement at how good these schools are and how diverse they are, and that's what the commissioners did,

If anything, I think we're playing too loose. Maybe we have the mentality that our schedule has only one playoff team in our remaining seven games or so. But this is the NHL, and every team has pride and every player has individual pride. There is no such thing as an easy game.

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

For us defensively, we take a lot of pride in it. This year it's a little different because of the circumstances of the CBA. There are no bonuses. The guys are definitely out for just pride and feeding off that performance to move on to the next game.

For us it's pride. When you have the Rochester jersey on, you're not just playing for yourself, you're playing for everybody that has played in this organization in the past.

I don't want our kids playing the scoreboard because, quite frankly, we won't always be here at the Civic Center. In the second half we matched baskets and we won by five. I don't think we should do that. We should take more pride in what we're doing.

Glenn played so many years here and had got so much pride in his work. We wanted to give the Spurs fans success and joy and we never really achieved that. We would have loved to have given them success but it hasn't happened.

I felt in the second half the players played with a lot of pride and they showed they weren't going to drop their heads and roll over and that was important. They wanted to show the Dallas fans that we can play this game too.

I believe that the fact that I became the lightning rod for criticism for the organization, with me being out of the picture so to speak, makes things easier in that respect, ... But I look at the last three years. The last time this franchise had 86 or more-wins three straight years was '78, '79 and '80. We didn't get to the postseason, but I'm walking away with pride in the effort I put into this job.

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But it's the infield to me. I play first as though I were a third baseman or a shortstop. I pride myself on my defense. I pay a lot of attention to it.

I'm anxious to see how we're going to react. There's no doubt in my mind we're going to play a better game. I think the players have some pride and they want to bounce back and give them a good game.

Basically, it's substance over style. All we care about it is the 'W.' We pride ourselves on defense. If defense is going to win games, that's what we're going to do.

I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it's something I pride myself on.

I have always said I take so much more pride in where we finish in the two months of going through the Big Ten. That to me is far more important than four days in one city. Now, I do like the atmosphere here and chance for rejuvenation for teams and kids.

Having an all-time record under our belts says a lot about this team. We pride ourselves on defense and boxing out.

Having watched the pride of some countries in acquiring the world-stage status of having nuclear weapons -- and what that has meant for nationalism and leadership ... it becomes almost a piece of the holy grail for a small country that otherwise might be victimized living in a dangerous neighborhood,

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

What we want to do is play good ball like we did tonight, ... There's some pride involved.

What you see in all of their eyes and what you see in all their action is a great pride and professionalism with which they do their job. They believe in what they're doing there. And that is not only protecting America's freedoms, but also giving hope to a part of the world that really doesn't even know what those freedoms can mean to them.

He's a great recruiter, kids love to play for him, he's won wherever he's been. And he takes a lot of pride in that program.

We thought with his (Felix's) size, he might be a little tougher to shoot over. He took some pride in that today, and he should. He's a really good defender.

We take a lot of pride in being a good road team. From Day 1, we talked about being a great road team.

We take a lot of pride in doing our job. We're very professional. We just want to come out and put on a good show for our community.

We take a lot of pride in earning the number one seed. However, we also realize that means all the other teams will be gunning for us. It is always a little more difficult beating the same team twice in a season. Hopefully we'll be up to the task of defending our title.

We take a lot of pride in our defense,