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Quotes About Pride

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
~ Unknown
No I aint lookin down, but I see no one above me.
~ Lil Wayne
Sometimes I wanna drop a tear but no emotion from a king.
~ Lil Wayne
I have flushed out the feeling, of me being the shit. Cause I was leaving skid marks, on everywhere I sit.
~ Lil Wayne
Crown fit me good, I aint even got to try on.
~ Lil Wayne
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
~ Lillian Hellman
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
~ Lillian Hellman
Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
~ Unknown
Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.
~ Lincoln Chafee
You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride.
~ Unknown
Pride is a curious thing--- a paradox, really. It makes great fools of some men and saves the honour of others.
~ Unknown
Who looks back with pride at the end of the year (or at the end of their lives) on how much TV they watched, or how many Facebook posts they commented on? Most likely, every moment in your life you remember with fondness and pride took effort…and effort often means stress.
~ Unknown
Okay," Nellie said, "whatcha got?" Dan's expression was pure smugness. "I want you to beg," he said.
~ Linda Sue Park
Link Starbureiy and his handsome self.
~ Unknown
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
~ Lionel Blue
He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness.
~ Lionel Shriver
I am confessedly and unashamedly almost fifty years old and never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.
~ Lionel Shriver
I see now what they mean by "holding your head high," and I am sometimes surprised by how much interior transformation a ramrod posture can afford. When I stand physically proud, I feel a small measure less mortified.
~ Lionel Shriver
Precocious was not the same as smart, much less the same as wise, and the perfect opposite of informed - since the more you prided yourself on knowing already the less you listened and the less you learned.
~ Lionel Shriver
as self-satisfaction, and their contentment came across as exclusionary.
~ Lionel Shriver
Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old order. He must sometimes have wondered how it came about that he should be praising sportsmanship and gentlemanliness and dutifulness and physical courage. He seems to have thought, and very likely he was right, that they might come in handy as revolutionary virtues.
~ Lionel Trilling
We don't put much stock in genealogy where I'm from [...] It's assumed that you're kind of a loser if you have to sink to boasting about your family in order to impress people.
~ Unknown
I wondered what getting an A would feel like. The best feeling in the world, probably. Like going to a Yankees game with your dad and eating three hot dogs with extra everything.
~ Lisa Graff
I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.
~ Lisa Guerrero