Quotes About Pride

You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

The jewel in the crown

Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native.

Photographing my success was my best photo."

O source of equity and rest... Disturb our negligence and chill, Convict our pride of its offence In all things, even penitence, Instruct us in the civil art Of making from the muddled heart A desert and a city where The thoughts that have to labor there May find locality and peace, And pent-up feelings their release, Send strength sufficient for our day, And point our knowledge on its way.

They lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.

If a woman must make a fool of herself, the least a man can do is to let her be one in her own way.

Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-red The stripes forever gleam; Snow-white and soul-white - The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright - The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.

Behold, A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns; Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him. But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one

I am a biological and cultural mongrel and proud of it; in mind and body, I am a product of all classes and races and nations. I don't pretend to be racially or socially pure like you, or a chauvinist like you, petty fascist of all nations, races, and classes.

The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.

It is, sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Violence had lost the personal touch, the pride had gone out of self-preservation, and mere chickenshit possibilities of improved technology replaced it.

AminteÈ™te-È›i c? Satana a fost la început unul dintre cei mai mândri îngeri, un nobil serafim, pân? s? nesocoteasc? porunca lui Dumnezeu.

Witnessing the blind fury of this mob and seeing them kill before my eyes the Jews who refused to be converted (some out of faith, and others from that pride which can sometimes be perilous), I answered that I would rather be converted than killed, since, in spite of everything, the temporary agony of being is more valuable than the ultimate void of nothingness.

Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.

Why do we care for our stakeholders in this particular order? The interests of our own employees must be placed directly ahead of those of our guests because the only way we can consistently earn raves, win repeat business, and develop bonds of loyalty with our guests is first to ensure that our own team members feel jazzed about coming to work. Being jazzed is a combination of feeling motivated, enthusiastic, confident, proud, and at peace with the choice to work on our team.

Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

On se sert même du cynisme pour ne pas crever de honte.

We are cool, and we know it, and our people know it!" That's what the capitol complex in Madison, Wisconsin, seems to exclaim every time I've played in that city.