Quotes About Pride

Nothing could have been greater than the pride of serving this city. I do not believe -- I am sure I speak for my colleagues on all sides -- nothing else that happens to us in our lives will be as rewarding and fulfilling as the years that we have spent in this building.

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad, but we've also been taught that you must always have your pride. Above all.

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

There is no vanity so damaging to a man's character as pride over his good deeds!

Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings.

To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

Cherokee's American, Ned. It don't get more American than that.

Seldom have I found in the ritual music of the Catholic church a quality so convincing that there is no need to mourn the past. Without going into a complicated maze of aesthetics, we can define quality as a certain something which is not inferior to what the external world offers, such as to render every Christian proud of his own music.

Love and pride and a painful protective instinct crunch through her chest. Matthew and Phoebe are Lily's raison d'être. She knows why she wanted kids so badly. Having children is a hopeful, redemptive act. It's not only a literal reinvention of oneself, it's a way to reshape the idea of one's self.

Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing

I have dealt with the poor, Bathsheba. They need a great deal, but I do not believe they feel any great want for aristocratic females dressed in the latest stare of fashion telling them they are proud, vain, and licentious.

If you want respect, you must take your medicine like a brave aristocrat," he said. "Think of the French nobles who walked to the guillotine, double chins aloft.

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

I'm a lesbian. I'm not dead.

A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family. And they were my heroes.

I looked from the gadget-readied spear and body armor to my slender staff of plain old wood and leather duster. My dick is better than your dick, I said.

Her chin lifted, and her hard, cold eyes flickered in naked, unconcealed pride. "Never once in your life, my Knight, have you taken the easy road. I chose well.