Quotes About Pride

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?

My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.

I am my city. Nobody from my city wants to hear about my city.

Despair … is the ultimate development of a pride so great and so stiff-necked that it selects the absolute misery of damnation rather than accept happiness from the hands of God and thereby acknowledge that He is above us and that we are not capable of fulfilling our destiny by ourselves.

EL-FAYOUMY: You're very handsome, Caiaphas. CAIAPHUS THE ELDER: If I am, it's 'cuz God made me, not 'cuz you said so. Good day.

23Pride ends in humiliation,         while humility brings honor.

Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.

But nevertheless, what remains - very broadly diffused through the modern British consciousness - is a warmish afterglow generated by a sense that Britain's record in the last two hundred years is on the whole a source of legitimate pride. This in turn nourishes a sense that Britain deserves a special place in the pantheon of the world - that we are not just a small country at the European end of the Eurasian landmass.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.

What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn't step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem. Ingratitude is the appropriate response to a kindness that has hooks on it. Headstrong is another word for trusting your own heart.

If I had ever nurtured any notions of nobility, bravery, courage, dignity, or the like, these exalted qualities were embodied in the faces I saw. Clear-eyed, firm-jawed, virile, strong, and proud— they were the living embodiments of every red-blooded boy's childhood fantasy of glorious manhood: heroism incarnate. That they were going to kill me seemed a thing of piddling consequence.

Looking as sharp as Sweeney Todd's razor, Roger struck a formidable figure as he donned his smart clothes and tie. At times, he would often talk of the night of his career when he fought John Conteh. He took the defeat of that match very personally and would often punch out a drunk who scoffed at his midlands accent and his past pride and glory.

I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. ... I am a librarian ... ! Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, 1999. Line spoken by Rachel Weisz as Evie Carnahan)

Then I'm the King of the Cats!

Amabhulu azizinja

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

What's the big picture?" Husain Haqqani asked Pasha during this period. "We're a small country," he answered. "They are the big ones. We have to keep our pride. We have to outmaneuver them. It's all about being smart.

Epicureanism says, "Be sensuous; enjoy yourself." Education says, "Be resourceful; expand yourself." Materialism says, "Be satisfied; please yourself." Psychology says, "Be confident; fulfill yourself." Pride says, "Be superior; promote yourself" Humanism says, "Be capable; believe in yourself." But God says to us, "Be wise; humble yourself.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.