Novak was saying that the pope's message was in part: You are not nothing; you are a great deal. God made you in his image, and he calls you to be like him. And so you must walk forward in to the world each day with confidence and humility. This reminded me of what a woman in Bible study said once. Walk with pride, for you are the daughter of a king. - Peggy Noonan My sign is Leo. A Leo has to walk with pride. When he takes a step, he has to put his foot down. You walk into a room and you want people to know your presence, without you doing anything. - Wesley Snipes

Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure. Sabina believed that she had to assume to correct attitude to her unchosen faith. To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as taking pride in it. - Milan Kundera Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man! - Jules Verne

I think to myself that when you're in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to fight to keep your pride. It's a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find that balance. - Emily Giffin When you're in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It's a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance. - Emily Giffin But why is it so hard to forgive? Mrs. Conners asked. "Pride," Dad said. "This person has already wronged you in some way, and now you are the one who has to swallow your pride, give something up, in order to forgive him. - Bree Despain Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues - Bob Dylan Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too. - Lorrie Fair A brick could be used as an ...

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me. - Drew Barrymore 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. - Nick Cave When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target. - Jerry Doyle I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride. - Ryan Kwanten In that instant th...

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? - Theodore Bikel There's no Coastguard in France. They let the French Navy do it. They have to give them something to do. It's not good for national pride to have to disband it so they turned it into a Coastguard. I think it does a few other bits and bobs too. - Tim Fitzhigham The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. - Mike Fitzpatrick Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride. - Ian Martin I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate. - Johnny Rotton

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music. - Bryan Adams You look pretty unscarred. (Sin) Boy, you better be glad you're stunning when you're naked or I'd skin you for that. I've been through hell this week because of you. Do you think I wanted to come crawling back here only to have you tell me to get lost again? I know it's hard for you to believe, but I do have my pride, and you've kicked it for the last time. (Kat) You missed me? (Sin) - Sherrilyn Kenyon 1971 was the year of spaghetti. In 1971 I cooked spaghetti to live, and lived to cook spaghetti. Steam rising from the pot was my pride and joy, tomato sauce bubbling up in the saucepan my one great hope in life... This is the story from the Year of Spaghetti, AD 1971. - Haruki Murakami My pri...

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. - John Ruskin He's been to the brink and come back. I guess when you lose your pride, even for just a moment, you realise how much it means to you. - Markus Zusak

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one. - Francesca Annis When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility. - Ken Follett

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. - Mary Antin We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments. - John Thorn

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood. - Sylvester Stallone Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!! - Bruce Lee