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Quotes About Pride

I hear America singing! Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs!
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Notably, it was not her fabled tenure as first lady, not the conquest of Paris or the myriad other triumphs of the White House years, not her demeanor at President Kennedy's funeral and what it had meant to so many Americans, that Jackie spoke of when she replied without hesitation: "I think it is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I am proud of that.
~ Barbara Leaming
Must look down on the hate of those below. —LORD BYRON, 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
It was a symbiotic division of labor that would have made a classical economist flush with pride.
~ Barry Eisler
Murakami liked to fight. Hell, Pride wasn't enough for him. He needed more. And it wasn't the money. Pride, with promotions and pay-per-view, would pay a lot more, to the winners and losers. No. It wasn't the money for this guy. It was the excitement. The proximity to death. The high you can only get from killing a man who's simultaneously doing everything in his power to kill you. I know the sensation. It both fascinates and repulses me.
~ Barry Eisler
I am a dragon. America the beautiful, like you will never know.
~ Barry Hannah
From pride there can only come brands for the burning. The resin of the wicked branch makes it flame more brightly and it may seem for a time to light up the dark; but it is soon consumed away, leaving the world darker than before.
~ Barry Unsworth
In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
~ Stephen R. Covey
They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Ah, it is hard to take pride in human history.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
Modern Germans were confirmed pacifists. They wanted no mention of the former wars, either directly or indirectly. By and large they were consumed with historical guilt, bleeding their anguish in rivulets of pride.
~ Steve Berry
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
~ Steve Martin
Los padres obsesivos saben quiénes son y generalmente se sienten orgullosos de ello; los padres no obsesivos también saben quiénes son y tienden a burlarse de ellos.) La mayor
~ Steven D. Levitt
Nationalism should not be confused with civic values, public spirit, social responsibility, or cultural pride.
~ Steven Pinker
meinstein n. My son, the genius.
~ Steven Pinker
He who is in love with himself has no rivals.
~ Benjamin Franklin
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
~ John Ruskin
I'm a Mormon. I know it. I live it. I love it.
~ Ann M. Dibb
I love being Italian.
~ Connie Stevens
I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell I love them.
~ Bipasha Basu
I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I love my husband. I believe in him, and I am proud of his accomplishments.
~ Pat Nixon
I love my son and am proud of my son.
~ Robert H. Schuller
Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar