Quotes About Pride

Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?

As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in.

We [England] have become all Billy Big Time and become too big for our boots, and yet we have got nothing to shout about

He had never once crossed the borders of friendliness with her and, when she thought of this, fresh anger rose, the anger of hurt pride and feminine vanity.

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

I have seen love that, through its willingness to sacrifice everything, brought hope to the world. I have seen love that tried to overcome pride and a lust for power, but failed. The world is darker for its failure, but it is only as a cloud dims the sun. The sun—the love, still remains. Finally I have seen love lost in darkness. Love misplaced, misunderstood, because the lover did not know his—or her—own heart.

He writhed at the thought and vowed by the gods of magic, by all three gods of magic, that he would never return to Solace until he could do so with pride in himself and with power in his hand.

We both loved other things more, and that came near destroying us." "What things?" "Power, for one. Glory, for another. Pride, ambition, the need to control everything around us.

Mithas"—"My honor is life.

Love and hate are twin babes, born to the same mother, but separated at birth. Pride, misunderstanding, jealousy prod hate, urge it to destroy its sibling. But love, if it is armored with respect, will always prove the stronger.

Ma... dirlo così... come potrei. Come si può valutare una cosa simile... il disonore? Non dobbiamo valutare una cosa simile, signora. Deve dirmi che somma le piacerebbe avere.

Anything morally worthy in ourselves is corrupted if we wish to admire ourselves. And someone else remarked that there are no mirrors in heaven. There couldn't be, for the mirror is the symbolic antithesis of a glad, free offering of our full attention to

O clérigo pensou em Pitágoras, em Nicolau de Cusa, em um certo Copérnico cujas teorias, recentemente expostas na escola, eram acolhidas com entusiasmo ou violentamente rechaçadas, e um movimento de orgulho recordou-lhe a condição de membro da industriosa e agitada família de homens que domestica o fogo, trasnforma a essência das coisas e esquadrinha o itinerário dos astros.

Érico, porém, era daqueles que preferem receber seu destino de fora, fosse por orgulho, pois achava belo que o próprio céu se ocupasse de sua sorte, fosse por indolência, para não ter de responder nem pelo bem nem pelo mal que trazia em si.

You have a magnificent moustache. You must be very proud of it.

Don't make the mistake of letting pride get in the way of forgiveness. You still love him. He still loves you. Don't throw it all away just because your feelings are hurt.

All of a sudden, you're not too proud to ask for help. That's what it means to surrender to God.

How ironic. You spend your whole life resisting the notion that there's someone out there smarter than you are, and then all of a sudden you're so relieved to know it's true. All of a sudden, you're not too proud to ask for help.

The five dollars I gave her would never reach her. I knew that: because I wanted my class to think me good for giving it. Spiritual Pride the nuns called it, a Sin of Intention, sister to the Sin of Omission, which was the price for what you hadn't done but thought. Sometimes I prayed so hard for God to materialize at the foot of my bed it would start to happen; then I'd beg it to stop, and it would.

Pride. You have it where you can have it.

While the Citizen can entertain aspirations for the society as a whole and take pride in its achievements, the Taxpayer, as presently imagined, simply does not want to pay taxes. The societal consequences of this aversion--failing infrastructure, for example--are to be preferred to any inroad on his or her momentary fiefdom.

Clothed as he was in the garments of misfeasance and bewilderment, there lived in him a deeply arrogant man.

In those days there was a lot of pride involved in the way a woman's wash looked, especially the white things.

When we are children, when we are young, it is natural to love our friends, to be generous to them, to forgive their faults.. But as we grow old and have to earn our bread, friendship does not endure so easily. We must always be on our guard. Our elders no longer look after us, we are no longer content with those simple pleasures of children. Pride grows in us – we wish to become great or powerful or rich, or simply to guard ourself against misfortune.