Quotes About Pride

There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.

How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

People should accept themselves for who they really are and be proud of that and take ownership of that first and learn that self love to really be happy.

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

I am proud to be a woman. I am sensual, nurturing and compassionate woman. I am a woman of my word and I love who I am.

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.

Pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in others and overlook in himself.

you can hang on to your hurt out of some misplaced sense of pride, or you can just let go and relish whatever precious time you have.

What if the genetically superior male is actually a bit of a dickhead?

I know it's been tough. But we're terribly proud of you, you know." "For what?" She says blowing her nose. "I failed, Dad. Most people think I shouldn't have even tried." "Just for carrying on, really. Sometimes, my darling girl, that's heroic in itself.

I'm going to say a Will Traynor thing now." I said it like a warning. "Okay." "There's almost not a day that I'm here when I don't think he'd be proud of me.

Oh, Louisa, you can hang on to your hurt out of some misplaced sense of pride, or you can just let go and relish whatever precious time you have.

I thought of Patrick and the multitude of certificates on the wall of his apartment, and wondered at the male need to display achievements, like a peacock permanently shimmering his tail.