Quotes About Pride

If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right.

At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.

The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage. For in the very nature of things, success tends to create pride and blindness in the hearts of men, while suffering teaches them to be patient and strong.

He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that...victory deserved the best-looking armour.

When a horse wants to display himself...he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.

We feel a greater pride in conversing with those who are superior to us in honor, than with those who are on a level with us.

It wasn't pride that prevented him from asking for help but a deep aversion to causing more trouble than necessary for those of us who lived in the normal world.

We are all pretty determined people, And like Americans tend to look at the place we live in as not only a place but also an idea we live in.

Au diable la reconnaissance si elle est dispensée par des gens qui ne t'arrivent pas à la cheville.

Tous les drames sont possibles lorsqu'un amour-propre est bafoué

And then I think that while America was busy patting itself on the back and beating its chest,

If he had really wanted to control himself, he could have. He simply had not wanted to control himself. To live his way, he had been determined to fight anyone who interfered. So all right then, in a way he had fought for a principle. But it was not that simple, because he had also been proud and delighted to show how good he was at fighting.

They might even speak colloquially and unscientifically of a Jewish "gene," for example, when expressing a measure of pride at the high percentage of Jewish Nobel laureates.

One thing I do know, and I believe you know it too, is that what he is doing goes against the very grain of the universe. He's taking the path of Icarus, and no matter how you mix the wax, it melts when it gets too close to the sun.

just to gloat at mum and dad's golden girl brought low. But

I like to succeed in public, but to fail in secret.

religious leader." Such pride is very dangerous

Uncle Eric holding court, proud the only time he ever left Yorkshire was to kill Germans.

Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness

The mind would like us to think that there is such a thing as "justifiable anger," which takes the form of moralistic indignation. If we look at moralistic indignation, we will see that it is propped up by vanity and pride. We like to think how right we are in a situation and how "wrong" the other persons are.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. – Alexander Pope

Jerseys were for people who were afraid to milk Holsteins and too ashamed to milk goats.

Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!