Pride quotes

Explore these inspiring Pride quotes that celebrate self-acceptance, courage, love, and inclusivity, reminding us to embrace our true identities without fear.

Our names are given to us by God. I have betrayed God, and so I no longer have a name.

- Scar

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

- Saint Augustine

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

- John Thorn

Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.

- Steve Blake

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

- Joe Paterno

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

- Paul Getty

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

- William Faulkner

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

- Alexis Carrel

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.

- Cass Sunstein

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

- Barack Obama

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

- Hosea Ballou

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.

- Wayne Kramer

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

- Corazon Aquino

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

- Art Modell

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

- Thomas V. Smith

I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.

- Julie Benz

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

- William Hazlitt

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

- John Ruskin

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.

- Albert J. Nock

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

- Harold Warner

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

- Loretta Lynn

I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

- Rosamund Pike

Pride will spit in pride's face.

- Thomas Fuller

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

- Alexander Pope

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

- Alan Paton

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

- John Steinbeck

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

- George Richards Minot

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

- William Gilbert