Quotes About Pride

Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.

felt, he couldn't start crying. He didn't want anyone to see him cry and feel sorry for him. Most important,

Honour is what no man can give you, and none can take away. Honour is a man's gift to himself.

I had never been so extravagantly proud of having blood that clotted.

From a very early age I remember a phrase being quietly passed around among our relatives at Six Nations: "Be proud you are an Indian, but be careful who you tell.

All things being equal, you root for your own sex, your own culture, your own locality…and what you want to prove is that you are better than the other person. Whomever you root for represents you; and when he wins, you win."88

All things being equal, you root for your own sex, your own culture, your own locality…and what you want to prove is that you are better than the other person. Whomever you root for represents you; and when he wins, you win.

Em condições normais, você torce por seu sexo, sua cultura, sua localidade [...] e o que você quer provar é que você é melhor do que a outra pessoa. Seja quem for a pessoa por quem você torce, ela representa você; e quando vence, você vence.

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

"You're wounded!" "Nay," the soldier's prideTouched to the quick, he said:"I'm killed, Sire!" And his chief beside,Smiling the boy fell dead.

Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn,That while a lassie she had worn,In longitude tho' sorely scanty,It was her best, and she was vauntie.

They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.

A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.

They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.

Now go and brag of thy present happiness, whosoever thou art, brag of thy temperature, of thy good parts, insult, triumph, and boast; thou seest in what a brittle state thou art, how soon thou mayst be dejected, how many several ways, by bad diet, bad air, a small loss, a little sorrow or discontent, an ague, &c.; how many sudden accidents may procure thy ruin, what a small tenure of happiness thou hast in this life, how weak and silly a creature thou art.

Clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares.

We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.

Seduction requires an openness to the other person, a willingness to bend and adapt. Excessive pride, without anything to justify it, is highly anti-seductive.

Be convinced, that there are no persons so insignificant and inconsiderable, but may, some time or other, have it in their power to be of use to you; which they certainly will not, if you have once shown them contempt. Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it for ever. (Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773)

Do not be led astray by a false sense of honor," said the Athenians. "Honor often brings men to ruin when they are faced with an obvious danger that somehow affects their pride.

Feeling superior and beyond it is a sure sign that the irrational is at work.