Quotes About Pride

Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it.

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.

The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

I think my mom just filled me with confidence. I just thought I was the best at everything. Like any mother really.

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

You better not brag, you're a hunky old hag, and that goes for your mother, too.

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.