Pride Quotes

I do not wish to travel around the world. I already have the world trying to travel around me.

Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.

I chase goals, not girls.

I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.

Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from the dazzling light of his presence.

What matters is your convictions.

But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..

Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling -
Look out how you use proud words.

Pride grants you a happily never after.

Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.

... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.

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.