Quotes About Swallowing Your Pride

#1. Swallowing your pride isn't lethal. It might upset your stomach for a few minutes, but the ultimate result may be the life of your dreams. And that's a result that's worth every rejection you encounter.

Georgette Mosbacher

#2. 'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

Katey Sagal

#3. I won't just be swallowing my pride; I'll be choking on it.

Wendy Higgins

#4. Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.

Denis Leary

#5. When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.

Bill Parcells

#6. Negativity only breeds more negativity. I wish to not allow it to enter my heart and not for it to take harbour. It may make itself a home and never leave.

Aisha Mirza

#7. Swallowing pride rarely gives you indigestion.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#8. Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Jim Harrison

#9. The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

Agnes Repplier

#10. Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?

James M. Barrie

#11. What is thy body but a swallowing grave,
Seeming to bury that posterity
Which, by the rights of time, thou needs must have
If thou destroy them not in dark obscurity?
If so, the world will hold thee in disdain,
Sith in thy pride so fair a hope is slain.

William Shakespeare

#12. I didn't want him to be the one I avoided because he'd hurt me. If I was just his friend, then I would still be blessed. If that meant swallowing my pride and being his shoulder when he got hurt, or being the one he ranted at when he was angry; I was prepared to do it and to do it with dignity.

Jessica Thompson

#13. When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set
out to build a business empire. I set out to create something I enjoyed
that would pay the bills.

Richard Branson

#14. Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences.

Mike Birbiglia

#15. No one should ever go hungry, what with chewing ourselves out, eating crow and swallowing pride.

Chris Brady