Quotes About Pride

What's the sense of living if you're ashamed of yourself? Stella's father said almost to himself.

think I'll go to church with Mama this Sunday. / know people will say that it's because of the accident that / came back to church- well, they're right. I'm not too proud to know when a problem is bigger than / am.

Maybe this is what our young doppelgangers failed to understand. They believed their good example would be enough. That being right was enough. They knew nothing about injured pride or the true inertia of human nature.

I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

I had to be so ugly that the humiliation I brought on myself would humiliate him, too. I would have to strip every last filament of golf from my skin - all the gold I had put there - and strip the fold from his skin, so that none of the gold on him would reflect onto me, and so we would be in utter darkness together.

I know pride's a deadly sin, but I don't think the sin is deadly if you're proud for someone else" -Reenie Kelly

But of course this only tries to make a magic out of being black, as if racial self-love and solidarity were the same thing as individual will and character—as if "black pride" could do the individual's hard work of developing into a person who can compete successfully in the modern world.

White racism had made my race the limit of my individuality. But now the new black consciousness I was learning from people like Gregory wanted me to voluntarily, even proudly, do the same thing that racism had done: make my race more important than my individuality

the fact is that we blacks are free.

All right fine!" she snapped. "I'm in love with you. There. I said it. Now get over yourself." "You know, I think those are the words written on the Taj Mahal: 'I said it. Now get over yourself.' Some of the greatest love stories have started with those words.

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

The thing that attracted me to my husband was his pride. I'll never forget the first time I saw him, standing up on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze - and he too proud to run and get it.

People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.

My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.

At the time we glorify self instead of glorify God, at that time we are wasting our time as... God is Time.

single universe, many planets, many continents, and many countries, my country Nigeria will never be like others.

All I wanted to do was come into my own and find out my career path and what I wanted to do with my life - but, at the same time, showing respect to my father and mother and make them proud as well.

I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time.