Quotes About Pride

There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.

Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone.

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

All too often cowardice wears the habit of wounded pride.

A single regret could crush a thousand proud deeds

Mortal, yours is a surpassing conceit … which I cannot but applaud.

Men. It's all about saving face. Every argument, every duel, every battle, every war. You would level a world to keep from being made to look a fool. And so you shall.

The proudest candle vanishes unseen into a raging house-fire, with none to recount the beauty of its delicate glow, or the dignity of its desire.

Failure to keep the street clean was symbolic of a moribund culture, a culture that had, despite loud and public exhortations to the contrary, lost its sense of pride, and its belief in itself.

Beware the leader who has nothing to lose.' Her people were proud of their wise sayings. And yet now, in their mortal silence, wisdom and pride proved a perfect match in value. Namely: worthless.

I think I understand. Before there can be disdain, there must be pride. One day I will find something to be proud of, and then I will find this taste of disdain, and see if it suits me. Should I not think this, being my father's son? And yet, I do not. Pride needs no claws, no scaled armour about itself. Not every virtue must be a weapon. These thoughts are my own. I will not crush them.