Quotes About Pride

I'm not ashamed of who I am.

It's not about me. It's about not having to be ashamed.

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

I've never made a record that I'm ashamed of.

I was ashamed of it, of the poverty I came from.

I'm not ashamed of being American; I'm very proud.

I'm not ashamed to be gay.

I have never been ashamed of whatever I do.

I'm not ashamed of myself.

I do not let anyone make me feel ashamed of being who I am.

I will do my best so that I won't feel ashamed of myself in the future.

My children feel proud of me. Since their father is honest, they have nothing to be ashamed about.

I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed.

Les parvenus sont comme les singes, desquels ils ont l'adresse: on les voit en hauteur, on admire leur agilité pendant Tescalade; mais, arrivés à la cime, on n'aperçoit plus que leurs côtés honteux.

Admiration, gratitude, a sort of hope for better days, were mingled with pride at having such a pretty daughter.

Nuestras ridiculeces son causadas en gran medida por un bello sentimiento, una virtud o unas facultades llevadas al extremo. El orgullo que no se refina con el trato del gran mundo se transforma en rigidez que se apega a simples pequeñeces en vez de crecer en un círculo de sentimientos elevados.

decline to descend as low as they can do is the one unpardonable sin. In their feeling towards loftier natures, there is a trace of hate and fear. Too much honour with them implies censure of themselves, a thing forgiven neither to the living nor to the dead.

Las personas que disfrutan en provincias de algún tipo de consideración y que encuentran a cada paso una prueba de su importancia, no se acostumbran a esta súbita y total pérdida de su valor.

Mademoiselle de Watteville, with a little flush of pride in thinking of the success of her Belvedere, discerned in herself a vast superiority over every one about her. No one guessed that a little girl, supposed to be a witless goose, had simply made up her mind to get a closer view of the lawyer Savaron's private study.

Land occupied a space in white pride, and a white man without land was no better than the Black man he had enslaved or the Indian he had stolen from, through murder and connivance and a lack of sympathy. White men had laughed at the anguish of the displaced Creeks: sooner or later, every conqueror laughs at his victim. That's what makes victory sweet, and more than that, justified.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

The most ignorant are the most conceited.