Quotes About Pride

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

the battlecruiser HMS Hood, which at 860 feet was the pride of the fleet. While her eight 15-inch guns were the largest then afloat, her Achilles' heel was her relatively thin armor, which made her more vulnerable than any battleship.

There's only one London. That's it. We are what we are.

Have no fear, in being Weak. Take no pride, in being Strong.

Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.

Tendré un sitio entre los monstruos de la humanidad. Me quieren altiva, imperiosa, vengativa y fanática...Se podría añadir orgullosa hasta el punto de no poder decidirme a defenderme cuando sería tan fácil, porque prefiero la calumnia a rebajarme hasta mis calumniadores. Elena de Montijo

Tendré un sitio entre los monstruos de la humanidad. Me quieren altiva, imperiosa, vengativa y fanática… Se podría añadir orgullosa hasta el punto de no poder decidirme a defenderme cuando sería tan fácil, porque prefiero la calumnia a rebajarme hasta mis calumniadores».

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

It's alright. It's okay if it's about your ego. Sometimes it's got to be about your ego. Just know that it is.

Our ego is our silent partner--too often with a controlling interest.

Some people think we don't have the rightTo say it's my countryBefore they give in they'd rather fuss and fightThan say it's my countryI've paid three hundred years or moreOf slave-driving sweat and welts on my backThis is my country

He could ask Lilly to stay, and she might. But his pride refused to ask her... She had to make the choice on her own to stay. If she didn't make the choice, she'd always be looking east.

Show me a woman who is prouder of her clean kitchen than of her collection of lingerie and I'll show you a woman with enlarged pores.

alla fin fine, bisogna saper apprezzare i vantaggi che si traggono dalle proprie origini.

È difficile comprendere da dove provenga quest'orgoglio dei poeti, se sovente si vergognano che appaia la loro debolezza.

National pride may be an absurd feeling, yet a rooster's pride as he struts about in his own yard amid the hens is biologically useful. (The Captive Mind)

McCoy: Representing the High Tier...Leonard James Akaar. Spock: The child was named Leonard James Akaar? Kirk nods. McCoy: Has a kind of a ring to it don't you think, James? Kirk: Yes, I think it is a name that will go down in galactic history, Leonard. What do you think, Spock? Spock: I think you both will be insufferably pleased with yourselves for at least a month...sir.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise.

Sir Walter Scott in his diary gives a description of his own feelings in times of stress. He says, "Nature has given me a kind of buoyancy . . . that mingles even with my deepest afflictions and most gloomy hours. I have a secret pride . . . which impels me to mix with my distresses strange fragments of mirth.

It was humility, thought Rhoda. That was the key-note of Bel's character. Rhoda had never prized this virtue—she had thought it overrated—but now she realised, that she had been mistaken. Humility was not just an absence of pride, it was not a negative virtue, it was a definite "fruit of the spirit". False humility was horrible of course (vide Uriah Heep) but real humility, growing from within, was beautiful.

Humility was not just an absence of pride, it was not a negative virtue, it was a definite "fruit of the spirit". False humility was horrible of course (vide Uriah Heep) but real humility, growing from within, was beautiful.

I remember feeling proud as I cast my first vote in Chicago in the 1972 presidential election - President Richard Nixon versus Senator George McGovern. Finally, I could participate. There was so much at stake.

I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!