Quotes About Pride

In America, we celebrate success. We don't apologize for success.

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.

Find your uniqueness and embrace it with pride.

Your integrity may disgrace your pride at the time you don't think but that doesnt mean you should stop. You'll have to accept and move on with your life in the way it is.

Don't let your 'bad pride' prevent you from moving forward on an opportunity that will allow you to showcase your 'good pride'.

Modesty isn't always a virtue

They who shared none of my defeats should take no pride in celebrating my successes.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Most of the people don't see a big success in life, because small successes ignites ego issues in them.

Feel Superior but Act Inferior

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.

Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

It occurred to him now to ask himself if this was how it happened : was it possible that the mere fact of using one's hands and investing one's attention in someone other than oneself, created a pride and tenderness that had nothing whatever to do with the response of the object of one's care - just as a craftsman's love for his handiwork is in no way diminished by the fact of it being unreciprocated?

People pay an enormous price to avoid mild embarrassment

Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess. - Ch. 5

I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother but she is not proud of me.

This Shanghai was not a place but a feeling of contentment. I was returning with myself whole and unbroken—limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride