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The game’s about pride. If you’re proud of your performance, the results will follow.

Author: Ian Botham
Topics: Famous, Positive, Pride

Take pride in your work.

Author: Axl Rose
Topics: Famous, Pride

We need to restore the pride of the nation and work towards its betterment.

Author: Yogi Adityanath
Topics: Famous, Nation, Pride

When thou shewest Respect to any one, see that thy Submissions be proportionable to the Homage thou owest him. There is Stupidity and Pride in doing too little; but in over acting of it, there is Abjection and Hypocrisy

Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Pride, Respect, Submission

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak

Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Humility, Life, Meaningful, Pride

Let us watch against pride in every shape – pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness, pride in our own deserts. Nothing is so likely to keep a man out of heaven, and prevent him seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something, we shall never be saved.

Author: J. C. Ryle
Topics: Famous, Goodness, Heaven, Jesus Christ, Nothing, Pride, Saved, Wealth

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

Author: J. C. Ryle
Topics: Famous, Grace, Humility, Oldest, Pride, Sins

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Topics: Achievement, Famous, Feelings, Life, Pride, Remember

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

Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Topics: Cure, Pride, Religion, Virtuous

I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-one of those first mashup books-and then I went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with my family.

 

Author: Ian Doescher
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Friends, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Pride

Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I’m confessing another fault: pride. I don’t want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned.

Author: Gail Carson Levine
Topics: Famous, Father, Home, Pride

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

Author: Thomas a Kempis
Topics: Credit, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Pride, Sin, Take, Things

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Author: Jane Austen
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Pride

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Author: Jane Austen
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, Pride, Vanity

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

Author: Jack London
Topics: Death, Pride, Work

I was right choosing to play with Spain. It is a pride; the decision was easy. I love Spain

Author: Thiago Alcantara
Topics: Choosing, Decision, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Love, Play, Pride, Spain

Discouragement itself is a form of pride

Author: Thérèse of Lisieux
Topics: Discouragement, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Pride

I went to see England against Switzerland at Wembley with my dad and brother, too. That was in 2008, Fabio Capello’s first game in charge. Jermaine Jenas scored, and we won 2-1. I remember the national anthem was incredible. I sang it with pride – always do.

Author: Harry Kane
Topics: Famous, Match, National anthem, National glory, National pride, National spirit, National Team, Pride, Remember, Singing, Victory

The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

Author: Kanye West
Topics: Famous, Humanity, Impactful, Motivational, Pride, Purposeful Living

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can’t do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I’m going to do something, I go all the way.

Author: Tom Cruise
Topics: Famous, Great, Life, Love, Meaningful, Pride, Something, Way

Besides, we weren’t made to battle villains, because there weren’t any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering, mostly because they couldn’t see that they were all alike. Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely. They did enjoy killing one another and frequently came up with ingenious excuses for doing so on a grand scale-religions, economic theories, ethnic pride-but we couldn’t condemn them for it, as it was in their mortal natures and they were too stupid to know any better.

Author: Kage Baker
Topics: Economic, Famous, Pride, Race, Stupid, Suffering, Theory, Villain

When I recieved the Padmabhushan it was a happy moment no doubt, but it was not something I sought desperately to win. I never worked towards the award.

Author: K. J. Yesudas
Topics: Achievement, Famous, Honor, Merit, Moment, Never, Prestige, Prestigious Award, Pride, Recognition, Win

I take pride in representing my country and will always give my all for the team.

Author: K. L. Rahul
Topics: Country, Famous, Pride, Team

People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth

Author: Thomas Sowell
Topics: Complicated, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Pride, Realize, Simplistic, Truth

Chinese immigrant: “Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.”

Author: H. W. Brands
Topics: Famous, Hypocrisy, Immigrants, Justice, Pride

It was a typical point, made in typical style, mixing pride and humility.

Author: H. W. Brands
Topics: Famous, Humility, Point, Pride, Style

On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless

Author: Thomas Merton
Topics: Dangerous, Feelings, Humanity, Humble, Inspirational, Meaningful, Pride, Sickness, Succeed

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room “in time” during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her husband, commander of a space shuttle crew, encouraged her by identifying with her limitation. Even revered astronauts, he revealed, have bodily limits and have to rely on Huggies during extended launch exercises.

Author: Gabrielle Giffords
Topics: Encouragement, Famous, Inspirational, Limitations, Pride, Weakness

Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real.

Author: Thomas Merton
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Humility, Life, Meaningful, Pride, Real, Reflection, Self-image

My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to killc

Author: Thomas A. Edison
Topics: Destroy, Enough, Experiences, Fact, Famous, Feelings, Human, Invented, Invention, Kill, Life, Meaningful, Money, Never, Pride, Proud, Purpose, Save, Saving, Weapon

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Topics: Comparision, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Good, Inferiority, Life, Meaningful, Pride, Superiority, Thinking

I fell asleep on the situation. I pride myself on being professional and not showing anyone up. It was a poor error in judgment.

Author: Gabe Kapler
Topics: Error, Famous, Fell, Judgement, Poor, Pride, Showing

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you – what a revelation.

Author: Emil Cioran
Topics: Discover, Discovered, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Notice, Pride, Prideful, Revelation, Something, Something for nothing

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.

Author: Robert Frost
Topics: Famous, Hope, Pride

Failure is painful when your opponent is laughing, but there is a pride in facing defeat without running away.

Author: Enzo Ferrari
Topics: Facing, Failure, Famous, Inspirational, Laughing, Life, Meaningful, Opponent, Painful, Positive, Pride, Running

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

Author: Edmund Burke
Topics: Ambition, Disorderly, Famous, Greater, Historical perspective, Histories, History, Hypocrisy, Life, Lust, Meaningful, Miseries, Pride, Revenge, Sedition, Train, Ungoverned, World

My pride, my ego, my needs, and my selfish ways Caused a good strong woman like you to walk out my life

Author: Bruno Mars
Topics: Desire, Desire for Goodness, Ego, Goodness, Like, Like me, Need, Pride, Self-time, Selfish

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Author: Brian Tracy
Topics: Difficult, Discipline, Experiences, Famous, Highroad, Important, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Pride, Right, Right decisions, Role of Discipline, Satisfaction, Self-Discipline, Self-esteem, Self-Satisfaction

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

Author: Bad Bunny
Topics: Latin, Lose, Pride, Proud, Proudest moments, Prove

All ideas are second-hand, consciously or unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them.

Author: Richard Branson
Topics: Drawn, Famous, Ideas, Million, Originated, Pride, Satisfaction, Sources, Superstition

I believe that, young or old, we have as much to look forward to with confidence and hope as we have to look back on with pride.

Author: Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Confidence, Famous, Meaningful, Pride

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Topics: Famous, Ground, Humility, Pride, Tree

Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

Author: Paulo Coelho
Topics: Change, Famous, House, Incapacity, Longer, Pride, Record, Simply

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‘Here I am. This is me.’ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Author: Dwayne Johnson
Topics: Famous, Life, Meaningful, Pride, Vulnerable

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

Author: Dwayne Johnson
Topics: Care, Famous, Meaningful, Pride

Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Author: Dante Alighieri
Topics: Envy, Famous, Fire, Heart, Meaningful, Men, Pride, Spark

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Carrying, Courage, Dignity, Encourages, Facing, Famous, Individuals, Inspirational, Meaningful, Motivational, Pride, Self-Confidence, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, World

Not length but strength is desirable. A sense of need is a mighty teacher of brevity. If our prayers had less of the tail feathers of pride and more wing they would be all the better. Verbiage is to devotion as chaff to the wheat.

 

Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hard, Hard Time, Know, Knowing, Life, Meaningful, Pride, Primarily, Sense, Sense of admiration, Teach, Teacher, Throughout

The important thing in any organization is the creation of a soul which is based on pride.

Author: George S. Patton
Topics: Famous, Important, Organizations, Pride, Soul, Things

Through pride, we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience, a still, small voice says to us, ‘Something is out of tune.

Author: Carl Jung
Topics: Deep, Deep affection, Famous, Fortune, Forward-looking, Life, Ourselves, Out of control, Pride, Small, Something, Still, Stillness, Voice

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

Author: Michel de Montaigne
Topics: Famous, Leave, Meaningful, Pride

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

Author: C. S. Lewis
Topics: Comparision, Competition, Man, Pleasure, Pride, Proud, Responsibility, Rest, Something

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Author: George Eliot
Topics: Famous, Help, Pride, Vanity, Witty

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts — not to hurt others.

Author: George Eliot
Topics: Famous, Hurt, Pride

But hunger is pride’s master.

Author: Mark Twain
Topics: Famous, Hunger, Master, Meaningful, Pride

Behold how Fortune turns all suddenly / The hope and pride of even her enemy!

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Topics: Enemy, Hope, Inspirational, Pride

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain

Author: Bruce Lee
Topics: Forget, Pain, Pride, Winning

She encourages readers to take pride in their heritage and to use it as a source of strength and inspiration.

Author: Margaret Walker
Topics: Encourages, Famous, Heritage, Inspiration, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Pride, Readers, Source, Strength

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Author: Margaret Thatcher
Topics: Difficult, Famous, Highroad, Important, Meaningful, Personal, Pride, Right, Satisfaction, Self-esteem

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn’t hold a stillborn aspiration. I’d want to have it, to make it, to live it.

Author: Ayn Rand
Topics: Famous, Hopeless, Life, Live, Lived, Pride

Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Topics: Pride

One, who abandons all desires, is free from pride and selfishness and behaves as one apart, finds peace.

Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Topics: Desires, Famous, Meaningful, Pride, Selfishness

They don’t see the tears I cry, the fears I hide. Tend to keep my cares inside, it’s merely pride.

Author: Nicki Minaj
Topics: Famous, Fears, Life, Meaningful, Pride

When you let go of your pride, you’ll find a lesson in your pain.

Author: Nipsey Hussle
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Lesson, Life, Meaningful, Pain, Pride

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man…?

Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Ambition, Desire, Indeed, Injustice, Lust, Misery, Ourselves, Pride, Weakness

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

Author: Mr. T
Topics: Famous, Meaningful, People, Popcorn, Pride, Work

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

Author: Baruch Spinoza
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Love, Meaningful, Positive, Pride, Reason

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

Author: Baruch Spinoza
Topics: Famous, Highly, Meaningful, Pleasure, Pride

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am

Author: Anais Nin
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mission, Personal Pride, Pride, Thinking, Thoughts

When a fighter is beaten, everybody who believes in him is beaten too — his family, his friends, his children, the people who cheer him on, who give him their love, their hope, their pride

Author: Muhammad Ali
Topics: Children, Family, Famous, Friends, Hope, Love, Meaningful, People, Pride

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

Author: Baruch Spinoza
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Ignorance, Life, Meaningful, Pride

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: Declaration, Economy, Famous, Meaningful, Military, Nation, Power, Premise, Pride, Skyscrapers, Tonight

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

Author: Morgan Freeman
Topics: Guiding, Pride, Principles, Speak

Everyone’s curves fall in a different place. But you can’t put something of mine on and not see curves.

Author: L'Wren Scott
Topics: Confidence, Meaningful, Pride

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