Quotes About Pride

I love my fans in Pakistan for being so kind and letting me be myself. Along this journey of exploring myself and a new world out here, I'm always going to make them proud, too. They're my constant support system.

The system did not want me to make 'Go.' And I sort of stood up to the system and made the movie I wanted to make, and the fact that I did that and I'm proud of the movie means I'm really proud of myself when I look back on that.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

But Why didn't she tell me? Why hide it?" ..."Would you brag about having a brother like me, sir?" Major Adams cut him a sharp look, then with a shrug seemed to accept his excuse...which was fairly insulting, if Bradley thought about it...

Siempre he considerado un acto miserable mendigar la vida como un favor. O se vive como uno desea, o es mejor no seguir viviendo

H. ¿Es importante para usted la amistad? M. Sí, mucho. H. ¿Cuántos amigos tiene? M. Pocos, y estoy orgulloso de que sean pocos.

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There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

So long as globalization was slow in coming, everyone hoped and prayed that it would come soon. The unity of the world's nations was one of the great triumphalist themes of modernism. World's fairs were staged in its honor, one after another. Now that globalization is here, however, it arouses more anxiety than pride. The erasing of differences may not portend the era of universal reconciliation that everyone confidently expected.

It is usually people who pride themselves on their lack of sexism who are the first to insinuate that I box , as one woman acquaintance said, "to get male attention." That would have to be the most painful and time-consuming method to do so ever invented.

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No, Mr. Vardas, I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is an hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity. One of the prime ambitions of a jackass is to bray louder than any other jackass, and man is not Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Archie Goodwin is the distilled optimism of America as it was for more than half of this century. Ebullient and proud, he still had to be humble because of the great brain of his employer. I read

Certainly. You don't owe him anything. As for me, I'm not that conceited. I'm not actually conceited at all. I merely think it's common sense to like myself.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

To assert dignity is to lose it.

And I didn't stop hating my name until many years later, when I realized that it wasn't a name to be ashamed of, but one to live up to.

But Anne got lucky when she was adopted by people who let her be who she wanted to be, who loved her and praised her for her talents, and who were not afraid to tell her they were proud of her.

You are now bilingual, bicultural, and binational. You are not less. You are more.

Yo voy a ser tu gran decepción y tú la mía porque vamos a representar allá adentro, acá adentro, a todos los que tienen la soberbia para emprender la tarea de convertir dos vidas en una

According to David Maraniss, the author of When Pride Still Mattered, Lombardi's last words, spoken in a delirium on his deathbed, were: "Joe Namath! You're not bigger than football! Remember that!

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.