Quotes About Pride

Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

Success hath made me wanton.

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in.

When you succeed be proud of yourself and know that not everyone gets to experience the thrill of success on a consistent basis.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

Above all, you want to create something you're proud of.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.

Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.

Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, 'I was the best quarter-miler in the world on that day.' If you don't think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul.

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Sí, pero, ¿adónde vamos? -Ya os lo he dicho. Donde el aire es puro, donde el ruido adormece, donde por orgulloso que el hombre sea se siente humillado y pequeño; amo estas impresiones, yo, a quien llaman el dueño del mundo como a Augusto. -Pero, ¿adónde vais? -Al mar