Quotes About Pride

Too often she had seen the first indignation of disappointed parents at the marriage of the their children harden into a matter of pride, a matter of doggedness and principle, and finally become ridiculous. If the marriages turned out happy, how absurd to persist in an antiquated disapproval; if they turned out wretched, then how urgent the special need for love.

Healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning to love yourself. As you move from feeling like a victim to being a proud survivor, you will have glimmers of hope, pride and satisfaction. Those are natural by-products of healing.

Look you not throw your music after pride: it's a rude servant, but a cruel master.

you can drop those 'a'ints' too. It ain't 'acting white' to speak your own language properly. People fought for you to get the best possible education. It would break your grandpa's heart to hear you talk like nothing had changed.

They looked up against the darkening sky and saw the fog curling over the edge of the ridges, perhaps 2,000 feet above them—and they felt that special kind of pride of a person who in a foolish moment accepts an impossible dare—then pulls it off to perfection.

In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

The gardener Adam and his wifeSmile at the claims of long descent.

Go by, go by, with all your din, Your dust, your greed, your guile, Your pomp, your gold; you cannot win From her one smile.... Outlawed? Then hills and glens and streams Are outlawed, too. Proud world, from our immortal dreams, We banish you.

Not to have a thing is less humiliating than to beg it.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by God than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

father-daughter relationship is unique in the kind of delight it brings to both persons, a proprietary pride that also contains an understanding of the boundaries that hold the two

We were, are, relentlessly, pridefully, stoical. We admire fortitude. We were raised to think a person has a right to be upset, in the event of loss or disappointment, but there are ways to acknowledge it without plodding through the embarrassment of a scene. Stop crying. Pull yourself together. Be brave.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.

Lutamos muito para ter um ego, mas se nos identificamos com ele, esquecemos o self, negando-o por ignorância ou orgulho até que nosso sofrimento se torne insuportável.

The front of my head feels like a house, and the thoughts reside within different set places that I can rearrange like furniture, but mostly I don't. I come from a furniture-dodging tribe. We tiptoe around the pieces as they remain in place. I'm thinking that way again. Strange, the small things that make us proud.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

De Gaulle at his iciest had reproached Challe: "One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!

Science is itself one of the modifications of amour-propre, the love of inequality.

3. Toda a moral de Jesus se resume na caridade e na humildade, isto é, nas duas virtudes contrárias ao egoísmo e ao orgulho.

Los que hacen bien con ostentación han recibido ya la recompensa"; en efecto, el que busca su glorificación en la tierra por el bien que ha hecho, él mismo se ha pagado; Dios ya no le debe nada; sólo le falta recibir el castigo de su orgullo.

Guardaos de confundir la fe con la presunción. La verdadera fe se aviene con la humildad; el que la posee pone su confianza en Dios más que en sí mismo, porque sabe que, simple instrumento de la voluntad de Dios, nada puede sin El, y por esto los buenos Espíritus vienen en su ayuda. La presunción más bien es orgullo que fe, y el orgullo es siempre castigado, más o menos tarde, por los desengaños y las desgracias que sufre.