Quotes About Pride

Who ... what are they?" "My pride and glory," Alex said fondly. "Betty and Lucy Coltrane. Best damned bouncers in the business. Though of course I'd never tell them that. Fiercer than pit bulls and cheaper to run. Married to each other. They had a dog once, but they ate it.

The war could not be won – but could it be ended with honour?

all of whom radiated level-headed competence, physical fitness and pride in appearance, and lived on a different planet from the one defined by general weak tittering, the oxygen levels of which I was more used to.

Do you ever lose the ego?" Westford asks me. "Yeah." When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.

Just so you know, I'm goin' to enlist." "I'm proud of you. But why?" I groan against the pain but manage to give him a half smile. "I want to make sure Kiara's got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep.

Don't ever pity me.

Mr. Latino with the big ego got bested by a ditzy, blond bimbo.

Listen, I didn't ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents' DNA, I've got them, and I'm not ashamed to use 'em.

You've got a big ego, Fuentes." "That's not all I've got.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

La dignità si deve mantenere, sempre, ma l'orgoglio porta male.

Il principale fondamento della moralità dell'individuo e di un popolo e la stima costante e profonda che esso ha di sé e la cura che ha a conservarsela, la sensibilità sul proprio onore. Un uomo senza amor proprio non può essere giusto, onesto e virtuoso.

Most relationships fail not because of fights, but because of egos.

Our pride will lead us to perish, but our politeness keeps us alive.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato?the only good belonging to him is underground.

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

He is an Englishman!For he himself has said it,And it's greatly to his credit,That he is an Englishman!

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

His sense of duty, honor, rectitude. What made me want to scream one day could make me proud the next.

If the vulnerable aren't also proud, they are crushed.

Don't hide yourself in regret, Just love yourself and you're set I'm on the right track, baby I was born this way

...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.