Quotes About Pride

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

Attend your children's athletic events. There's nothing better than watching your child succeed while absolutely loving the opportunity to play in front of you.

Humility is the only defence against vanity

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.

I'm proud to be one. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.

If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect.

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

Music, when turned to a good account, is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly, and becomes one of Satan 's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls.

Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

Dignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature.

Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!