Julie Garwood Quotes

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

Ego is good.

I've always been a proud man.

I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.

My self-respect is very dear to me.

I'm a human being and I'm a man, so don't disrespect me.

I am a very proud person.

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

They can take everything away from me, but they can never take my pride, unless I somehow get some.

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

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

Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood.

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.

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

Fame won't make you feel any better about yourself.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.