Quotes About Pride

You might notice I refer to my son Ben as Ben Young all the time. Larry (Johnson) always called his son Ben Johnson. I liked the pride with which he would say "Ben Johnson." It is a lingering memory of his great spirit.

These people yapped loudly of race, of race consciousness, of race pride, and yet suppressed its most delightful manifestations, love of color, joy of rhythmic motion, naive, spontaneous laughter. Harmony, radiance, and simplicity, all the essentials of spiritual beauty in the race they had marked for destructions.

the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.

There are victories whose glory lies only in the fact that they are known to those who win them.

Sometimes one can judge an organization by the people who belong to it, and I knew that I would be proud to belong to any organization in which Walter was a member.

Decisions should not be taken out of pride or embarrassment, but out of pure strategy.

Edgardina sempre de preto; e feliz, envaidecida, porque a dor não arrefecia no seu coração.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

I was with a group of queens, and we started walking up Christopher Street going, "Gay power! Gay power! Gay power!" We walked all the way to Eighth Avenue, and then we all looked at each other and said, "What do we do now?" So we turned round and walked all the way back down Christopher Street, still yelling, "Gay power!

The queens took the lead in the Stonewall Riots. They walked around in semi-drag with teased hair and false eyelashes on and they didn't give a shit what anybody thought about them. What did they have to lose? Absolutely fucking nothing.

I just want you all to know," quipped a platinum blond with obvious glee, "that sometimes being homosexual is a big pain in the ass.

In that bar, we were going to smash that rainbow.

Hay algunos que aman su historia y el color de su piel, y hay otros que odian su historia y el color de su piel...

Briefly everything was stopped, as if a hand had reached out and paused the world in its turning. She stood by the cooker now watching him, the pale blueberries of her eyes, watching him with pride, her two hands brought up to her mouth the way she always did when she had feelings two large for words.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

Pride of place went to the Santissima Trinidad, at four decks and 140 guns the biggest warship in the world.

We asked about the utilities, and Christine said proudly that the electricity was working, even though she hasn't paid the bills.

Her only shame was that she felt none.

He understood only then how you could love someone, how you could be proud of someone, simply because the were, simply because they existed.

This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride — he's my dad — and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.

Nah, pride's just a slick dress uniform and a cheap lie that'll get you killed when the people you're fighting for, who aren't doing any of the actual fighting, start selling you out and

I should be Adam. God was proud of Adam. But Satan's the one I sympathise with. For I was cast out, like Satan, though I did no wrong. And when I see others content, I feel the bile rise in my throat, and it tastes like Satan's bile.

To the proud heart and ambitious spirit this may seem a poor, unproductive attitude—but to those of us who have entered the school of Christ and have begun to learn of him who was meek and lowly in heart—when we have drunk, in any measure, into the spirit of Him who made Himself of no reputation, we then see things quite differently.