Quotes About Pride

It's my heritage overall, my people. Mexicans are known for being hard-working people, showing a lot of heart. I wanted to show people I am Mexican and I'm proud of it.

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

No one likes someone who's really overconfident.

Fame is a thing where people can overdo it and get a big head.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

I can't show false humility, nor be overly proud and ostentatious.

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

I'm happy that I can wear the Canadian jersey with pride. I'm happy that I can say I'm a Canadian playing overseas.

I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.

Get rid of pride, and riches will do no harm.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

Het kleine tekent het grote, meer dan het grote op zichzelf, en dat kleine ligt ons prima. Als een Vlaming geniaal is? Dan is het altijd in de bijkomstigheden. Daar moogt ge u nooit voor schamen. Men moet zijn wat men is, op straffe van helemaal niets te zijn.

Even as Camille's beauty and precocity took form, when pride alone might have nurtured proprietary feelings, she never seemed quite the child Judith was meant to call her own.

Now that they are called masters, [they] are ashamed again to become disciples.

My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

Lee should leave, having just surrendered to Grant inside; but he's immobile. Some of the officers of both sides look at Lee, some can't bear it. Lee tries out various expressions: pride, defiance, blankness.

I can positively assist you to explore and appreciate the variables of humility instead of the constants of pride and arrogance

She told me once there is a part of her in everyone, though Neil believes I'm more Delirium than Tori, and Death taught me to accept that, you know, wear your butterflies with pride.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I'm still a momma's girl at the heart of the situation.

What has happened now is that I've fallen madly in love with a woman. And it seems to me so absolutely natural and genuine – there's nothing problematic about it at all. I just feel proud and uncontrollably glad. These last weeks have been like one long dance of rich adventure, tenderness, intensity – an expedition into new domains of great simplicity and beauty.

It's nice to have beautiful things that really belong to you.

Mercy is always better than pride.