Quotes About Pride

It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they could take pride in, possess, value, as one would a family heirloom.

pero lo que trato de decirte es que me has salido bueno. Has hecho que me sienta orgullosa de ti, Markos.

I remembered something Baba had said about Pashtuns once. 'We may be hardheaded and I know we're far too proud, but, in the hour of need, believe me that there's no one you'd rather have at your side than a Pashtun.

And that right there was the single greatest moment of my twelve years of life, seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me at last.

For Churchill residents, particularly those who, like Lance, grew up in the community, bear awareness is. both ingrained and a matter of pride; appropriately safe behaviors are second-nature. The approach is one of neither blustering bravado nor crippling caution; common sense prevails

I'd watch your mouth, he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID.The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night in the emergency room with a drink umbrella jammed up his nose.

Behind the fury, he was tired. He was tired of being hauled around and shoved into a little room. He was tired of trying for me and failing. And to have Minias know it, to be carted off under his leash…It was almost insulting. Maybe, if I gave Al a night of peace to lick his wounds and his pride, he would grant that same courtesy to me?

It wasn't the bent, nasty, yellow laminated four-by-six card everyone else got but a real heavyweight plastic tag embossed with my name. Jenks had one, too, and he was obnoxiously proud of it even though I was the one wearing it, right under mine. It would get me into the morgue when nothing else would. Well, besides being dead.

I held my breath as Dali sighed, eyes averted as he balanced what was at stake and what it might cost. Pride was his fulcrum, unfairly shifting the weight so that one side had greater force than the other to make a wrong decision more than possible, but likely. We were going to doom the world to another wave of needless violence because of pride, I thought

but what Serena hadn't been able to deal with was the pathetic way Diane had always bragged about everything. From having the better father to receiving all

people talk with a sense of wonderment about the incredible bravery of us Rajputs. This is missing the obvious. Whether it's Father, my brothers, my ancestors, I or my countrymen, we are, it goes without saying, unsurpassedly fearless and valiant.

Everyone is shy --- it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.

I would be beholden to no man, not even for a blanket.

La conciencia de mi honradez se me subió a la cabeza, tuve el sentimiento grandioso de que yo era un carácter, un faro completamente blanco en medio del mar cenagoso de los hombres, un mostrenco extraordinario.

It is simply my sense of honour that keeps me afloat now. But it is strong enough too; at least, it has kept me up to date.

The day might come when I would just take into my head to pass her haughtily by without glancing once towards her. Ay, it might happen that I would venture to do this, even if she were to gaze straight into my eyes, and have a blood-red gown on into the bargain.

Jeg synes synd i dig, Åse, men fortryt ikke på at jeg ler når jeg ser dig, haha, du er så stiv og indtørket, du har vel ikke engang vand i skrævet. Jeg kunde hjelpe dig med en skjærv, men jeg vil ikke had dig på fingrene. Nei. Du er det som det ikke engang er navn på fra Gud, så ussel er du. Bli i freden!

You're arrogant." "I'm Dacian. You can't have one without the other.

I don't get it. I'm sexually attractive to a remarkable degree- And humble. It's not bragging if it's true. And I'm his-which means, this is in the bag. Or should be.

I like myself. Other than some late blooming magickal powers and some sealed legal records, I think I'm pretty fucking nifty. -Mariketa

You have no idea about my pride, Russian. It burns so bright, I hope it fucking blinds you.

Egotistical? Try self-confident. Should I be meek instead? Would you like me better then?" "No. I've never wanted a meek woman for my own. I've wanted a queen—" "And now you have one.

A person with a big head and a small heart can learn the doctrines of sin, yet never be convicted of sin.

If he couldn't be the kind of guy I was proud to be with in public, the act he put on for me in private didn't mean anything.