Quotes About Pride

Very well, young man, very well, Treville went on, I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser.

Escalation in morality can lead to holier-than-thou sanctimoniousness.

I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face against a social order which made so much charity in the present sense of the word necessary. I felt that charity was a word to choke over. Who wanted charity? And it was not just human pride but a strong sense of man's dignity and worth, and what was due to him in justice, that made me resent, rather than feel pround of so mighty a sum total of Catholic institutions.

There is something I want to do. But it's something to work towards, not something that should be handed to me on a plate. What's the point of doing something if you know you've got someone to rescue you if you fail? I like to work hard at something and then to reap the rewards. I take pride in what I do. What's the point if I know my rich husband will bail me out if I mess up?

If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.

If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think 'How lucky are the dead.

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble, When you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, Cause I get better looking each day. To know me is to love me. I must be a hell of a man. Oh Lord it's hard to be humble, But I'm doing the best that I can.

we need accomplishment and achievement to have a strong sense of self-esteem.

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

People need history in order to know themselves, to build a sense of identity and pride, continuity, community, and hope for the future.

The Disease Within The root of every rebellion (in every culture) must always be identified as pride, and the lust for autonomy. But this central sin manifests itself in different ways in different times, using different methods, concepts, and techniques.

A racist, then, is someone who takes the scripturally insufficient grounds of racial differences to justify his own malice or petty pride.

The root of every rebellion (in every culture) must always be identified as pride, and the lust for autonomy.

likemindedness is a function of humility. It is not necessarily a function of high intellectual attainment. If that is accompanied by pride (as it often is—1 Cor. 8:1), then the opposite of likemindedness will occur. Never forget that the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace—which necessarily includes this likemindedness—is in fact a work of the Spirit.

True submission never grovels, and true authority never accepts flattery.

When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.

A lot of aspiring writers quote the right people, but they do so like Mary Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. They quote Austen like Mary quoted her eighteenth-century bromides, and were Austen here to see them do it, she'd slap them right into her next book, and it wouldn't be pretty.

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

Let Africans remain good Africans and not a poor copy of Europeans. In the whole wide world, Africa my Africa came first. I'm proud of my colour whosoever is not proud of his colour is not fit to live. Only the best for Africa.