Quotes About Pride

Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!

Stagger onward rejoicing; And even then if, perhaps Having actually got To the last col, you collapse With all Atlantis shining Below you yet you cannot Descend, you should still be proud Even to have been allowed Just to peep at Atlantis In a poetic vision: Give thanks and lie down in peace, Having seen your salvation.

I must bless, I must praise That you, my swan, who have All gifts that to the swan Impulsive Nature gave, The majesty and pride, Last night should add Your voluntary love.

As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?

What causes all this?" "Pride. What else?

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything.

I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

I breath wrestling. It's in my blood. I have kind of a confidence when I walk.

Repect yourself... The rest will follow.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Remember all the times you were a winner; the times when you did something you were proud of, even small things. Hold these feelings close to you, this joy and confidence.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.