Quotes About Pride

Stand up there tomorrow morning and be proud of your humiliation.

I can see the thickness to your skin, Megara. You are tough. Courageous. Proud. I will assist you however I can." Meg had heard tales of Athena helping those on heroic endeavors, but she'd never imagined she'd be worthy of such a thing.

My mom went back to college when she had four kids in high school, middle school, and elementary school, and it has always been a source of pride for me. She was a teacher in her heart and needed the degree to match, so she chased the dream long before it was convenient or well-timed or easy. Yes, she fell off the oat bran wagon (kindly recall 1990) and we got store-bought prom dresses, but we watched her fly. It never occurred to us to settle for less.

You think you're so cool just because you can walk!

Wenn Sie Ihr Allerbestes tun und ehrliche Motive haben, können Sie stolz auf sich sein.

For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.

But then, the guy was a Feline. Effing cats always thought they were better than anyone else. Bastards. They washed their faces with their own spit, for crap's sake.

The count said in careful English, "That was perhaps not, as you English say, very sporting." "Games are played to win," Cameron said. "And we're Scottish.

Sir, no amount of money, no matter how vast, could induce me to stroll, perambulate, promenade, or engage in any form of locomotion with you whatsoever. Good evening.

It's not pride I'm feeling. It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent, and hot. This one sits inside you quietly and eats you from the inside out like the trichina worms the pigs get. It's the Eighth Deadly Sin. The one God left out. Hope.

It was an amazing feeling, to succeed at something. It was a new feeling for her -- part happiness, part pride -- and she relished it.

It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.

What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

Ik was zo sportief me maar een heel klein beetje te verkneukelen. 'Wat is het toch heerlijk om de koningin te zijn.

I this was what it meant to be a Hawthorne.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

On her [Thérèse's] part she seemed to revel in daring and shamelessness. Not a single moment of hesitation or fear possessed her. She threw herself into adultery with a kind of furious honesty, flouting danger, and as it were, taking pride in doing so.

Her pride in self-abnegation had left her, and she accepted that her loved ones could find happiness without her help.

Es mußte so kommen«, sagte er nachdenklich mit leiser Stimme. »Dieses Übermaß von Betriebsamkeit und Stolz auf unser Wissen mußte uns in den Zweifel zurückschleudern. Dies Jahrhundert, das schon soviel Licht gebracht hat, mußte mit der Drohung einer von neuem hereinbrechenden Finsternis enden.

Mercenariness, pride, routine, and indolence are the capital sins of the Russian office-holder, and the first has so strong a hold upon him that the people say, To make yourself understood by him you must talk of rubles; adding that in Russia everybody robs but Christ, who cannot because his hands are nailed down.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

I shall not stand to be laughed at. I shall not bear it!

Los soberbios no hacen más que dañarse a sí mismos.