Quotes About Pride

To feel pure joy, sell your pride and be loving and kind.

At Harvard, so the story goes, one of Carter's professors said that Black people had no history. Carter remembered his father's pride, his mother's courage, and Oliver's determination to learn. He remembered reading the newspaper. Carter spoke up. "No people lacked a history," he said. The professor challenged Carter to prove him wrong. For the rest of his life, Carter did just that.

Has anyone ever actually told you how up yourself you are?

Pride and respect are earned, not given by birth.

Be humble. Don't brag about your position, possessions, people you know, or places you've traveled. Humility tops the chart as the most admired character trait. Pride and arrogance are the most detestable.

Singurul lucru de care trebuie s?-?i fie ru?ine este s? te ru?inezi.

Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

Always remember to preserve your pride no matter what. Take pride in yourself and our family name. Never show weakness. Never admit failure..

To receive graciously is an art that cannot be faked. If it is more blessed to give than to receive, it is much harder to receive than to give. We receive ungraciously out of pride, feeling that we don't need anyone's help, handouts, or charity, or out of some sense of discomfort. These are all ego reactions, and there is no need to have them once you realize that the giver is never the giver, just as the receiver is never the receiver. Both stand in for spirit.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Our professional competence and pride should rest not alone in our possession of knowledge but as well in our ability to communicate it. Of course we shall carry on our research, and of course we shall applaud the colleague who 'produces,' but we shan't be happy if he offers that as a substitute for inspiring young people with a desire for knowledge, a sense of taste, and a regard for virtue.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Arrogant and full of pride that Churchman

I wonder if any man in Mancetter will have an ounce of pride remaining when all of this is said and done. To think we were haunted and hoodwinked by our own children.

México, el país que produce personas orgullosamente nacionalistas, pero educativamente mediocres.

Cada persona tendrá su propia lista, su propio pedazo del país colgado del corazón. Una lista larga, rica colorida, voluptuosa, fragante. Una lista con la cual contener el pesimismo; una vacuna contra la desilusión. Una lista de lo mejor de México. Una lista para despertarse en las mañanas.

She wanted to smack the cocksure grin right off his face.

Anyone who disrespects the flag has never been handed a folded one.

America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.

Once in a while there was a volcanic outburst into the consciousness, when some new idea, the solution to a problem, burbled up flecked with the detritus of its birth - pride, rage, ambition, prejudice, all the freight of human creativity.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

A man from Mumbai asks you. "Do you know who I am?" A man from Delhi asks you. "Do you know who my father is?"

Be yourself! Don't try to be someone or something that you're not! You're good as you are! You'll gain more respect for being who you're in actuality, and not pretending to be someone else who is not YOU. Always be proud of yourself, and respect yourself first before anyone else! Cheers!