Quotes About Pride

Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.

My sons are my proudest 'accomplishments' in life and I get energised seeing their individual personalities develop as they grow up.

We will not apologise for our way of life.

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

My buddies tell me that I should have waited. They say I'm missing a whole world of fun. But I am happy and I sing with pride. I like the Christian life.

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

And needless to say, smugness is half the fun of being a liberal (the other half being the tearing down of everything one's ancestors, and one's betters generally, worked so hard to build).

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

He breathed, with his assistant, the dust of the much-handled merchandise, the imaginable odors of sweat and pride and weeping; and it was an indefinable yet powerful atmosphere, which gave them an intimacy neither desired.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

Why would Donald Trump, who prides himself on his good taste, fall in love with Donald Trump? I mean, who can explain these things? Obsessions by their very nature defy reason.

If you are proud that God loves you, that He has given you great gifts, then you are acknowledging His existence and dependence on Him—and that is humility.

When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it's painful, and it certainly doesn't feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride — thwarted pride.

I built myself a house of glass: It took my years to make it: And I was proud. But now, alas! Would God someone would break it. But it looks too magnificent. No neighbour casts a stone From where he dwells, in tenement Or palace of glass, alone.

Some for renown on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. To patch-work learned quotations are allied; Both strive to make our poverty our pride.

I would have rid the earth of himOnce, in my pride.I never knew the worth of himUntil he died.

Pride is the master sin of the devil.

Do not pursuit such character and attitude that humiliate and degrade you in the eyes and hearts of the people.

For a sober and conscious figure, neutral and fair defeat becomes exceptional dignity and pride than a false and fake victory.