Pride Quotes - Page 30

• And it’s more. It’s about getting past that question of whats wrong with me, to knowing there’s nothing wrong, that you were born this way. You're a normal person and a beautiful person and you should be proud of who you are. You deserve to live and live with dignity and show people your pride.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Beautiful, Past, Knowing

  Julie Anne Peters (2007). “Keeping You a Secret”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Men, Errors

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• Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it - I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Distance, Loneliness, Farewell

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.464, Xist Publishing

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• You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy. You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Girl, Children, Men

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• I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

  Heinrich Heine

  Numbers, Rude, Suffering

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• criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hurt, Criticism, Resentment

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• Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Reading, Men

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• Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, My Best Friend, Done

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.18, Penguin

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• He speaks of you only with the greatest pride, Will

  Cassandra Clare

  Speak

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think I had felt anything for a long time before that, but those emotions at least were familiar to me. Love I am not familiar with. I didn't recognize that feeling until I thought I had lost you in Ephrata. And when I thought I was losing you a second time, I realized I would give up anything to keep you-my lip service to other gods, but my pride, too, and my rage at all gods, everything for you.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Giving Up, Pain, Grief

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• He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Jealous, Heart, Humble

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1203, Delphi Classics

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• I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Heart, Credit, Strange

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.329, Scholastic UK

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• I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Humility, People, Resilience

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• The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Self, Doubt, Virtue

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• Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.

  David Levithan

  Mother, Worry, Elements

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.15, Egmont UK

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• If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always...always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Past, Color

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• I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

  S. E. Hinton

  Fun, Real, Fighting

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.110, Penguin

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• She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong, Opposites, Fire

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• [Luke, holding stormtrooper helmet.] Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not,/ yet have I taken both uniform and life/ From thee. What manner of a man wert thou?/ A man of inf'nite jest or cruelty?/ A man with helpmate and with children too?/ A man who hath his Empire serv'd with pride?/ A man, perhaps, who wish'd for perfect peace?/ What'er thou wert, goodman, thy pardon grant/ Unto the one who took thy place: e'en me.

  Ian Doescher

  Children, Taken, Men

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• I was five steps away when he called, "Perseus." I turned. There was a different light in his eyes, a fiery kind of pride. "You did well, Perseus. Do not misunderstand me. Whatever else you do, know that you are mine. You are a true son of the Sea God.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Son, Light

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom and strength. It's not just enough to know when to fight, but to know when to lay down the sword and negotiate. Not everything in the world is worth fighting for.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, War, Fighting

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.104, Macmillan

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• If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stupid, Adam, Ifs

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.69, Scholastic Inc.

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• You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.

  Veronica Roth

  People, Laughing, Assuming

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• Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

  Veronica Roth

  People, Abnegation

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• There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

  Maya Angelou

  Sleep, Winning, Night

  Maya Angelou (1983). “Shaker, why don't you sing?”, Random House Inc

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