Personal Pride Quotes:

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

- William Blake

topic: Attitude, Commitment, Pride, Personal Pride

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

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Personal Power, Successful Women

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.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.551, Regnery Publishing

topic: Pride, Community, Lines, Personal Pride

Motivating through fear may work in the short term to get people to do something, but over the long run I believe personal pride is a much greater motivator. It produces far better results that last for a much longer time.

- John Wooden

topic: Basketball, Running, Believe, Long Runs, Personal Pride

Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

- Wayne Gerard Trotman

topic: Building Confidence, Personal Pride

We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Success, Sports, Believe, Personal Pride

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

- Edmund Burke

source: Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.188

topic: Pride, Men, Order, Personal Pride, Pride And Arrogance

A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present

- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

topic: Integrity, Pride, Men, Personal Pride

Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

- Charles Stross

source: Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

topic: Pride, Merit, Guides, Personal Pride

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XIV, 1840.

topic: Pride, Equality, Trying, Personal Pride

All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who really matter. Love and hate are the same things, differently sifted through personal... pride, or what have you... personal pride or even just personal-ness.

- Jack Kerouac

source: Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

topic: Hate, Pride, Soul, Personal Pride

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

- Frank Chodorov

topic: Attitude, Pride, Reason, Lackeys, Personal Pride

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

- Bill Watterson

source: "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1990.

topic: Pride, Source, Humans, Personal Pride