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Quotes About Pride

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
~ Isaac Watts
I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.
~ George W. Bush
You bruised my ego, you see, and there's just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised
~ Jennifer Estep, Wasted
No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.
~ George Carlin
I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.
~ George W. Bush
So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.
~ George W. Bush
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words
~ Dolly Parton
Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki.
~ Karen Harper, Fall from Pride
My cat mocks me frequently. It's the universe's way of keeping me from getting too big of an ego.
~ Michelle M. Pillow
Men. They don't ask for directions, but they'll ask a demon for a favor.-Nina
~ Karen Greco, Tainted Blood
...every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment).
~ G.M. Malliet, Wicked Autumn
Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I got over shy a really long time ago. I'm queer, I'm feline, get used to it.
~ Andrea Speed, Bloodlines
Demons were all about ego, which meant that most demons had some kind of title. I think it made them feel better about their tiny…pitchforks.
~ E.J. Stevens, Shadow Sight
Of course, you didn't want our help. Now I have to go beat up some soldier just to keep my ego intact.
~ Maria V. Snyder, Magic Study
I'm sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they're proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch
~ Neal Shusterman, UnDivided
No I didn't spell that wrong it's just the Canadian version
~ Christine Delilah
This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
~ Indira Gandhi
Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.
~ John Cornyn
That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
~ Robert Southey
Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
~ Steve Schmidt
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
~ Richard Dawkins