50 Pride Quotes For Self Acceptance And Confidence

"Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

"Pride helps us, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others."

"Don’t let compliments mess with your head or criticism mess with your heart."

"Success is a long process. If you're making steady progress on the path to your goals, you have already succeeded. Feel proud of that."

"Be happy being you. Don’t try to be anyone else. You’re unique, so be loud and proud."

"Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it."

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

"To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me a pretty cool life."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life. Define yourself."

"It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so."

"One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered."

"I hope they help you foster healthy self-esteem and build your confidence! Pride is the trap of ego pleasure."

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."

"Be careful, ever so careful, in trumpeting your own achievements, and always talk less about yourself than about other people. Modesty is generally preferable."

"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride."

"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like."

"It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride."

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

"I could easily forgive his pride if he had not mortified mine."

"History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities."

"Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you."

"Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live."

"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."

"Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being."

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind."

"Don't be ashamed of anything you've gone through. Be proud of everything you've overcome!"

"I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself."

"Few people can walk in your shoes. You are the only one that knows your obstacles, challenges, and struggles. Be proud of yourself and the progress you’ve made."

"Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard."

"If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities — the expression of love — then life itself loses its meaning."

"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

"There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in."

"The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them."

"Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality."

"The more I accept myself as a genderless human being, in a way, the more I'm loving my body."

"I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better."

"The more I've been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects. You can't really pick it apart. It's all intertwined."

"This community has fought and continues to fight a war of acceptance, a war of tolerance and the most relentless bravery. You are the definition of courage, do you know that?"

"We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity."

"Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change."

"I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me."

"We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love."

"With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings."

"Understand: You should be radiating confidence, not arrogance or disdain."

"The world will never value you more than you value yourself."

"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

"When you feel nervous, recall your pride."

"Pride comes before the fall. Stay humble."

"Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know."