Quotes About Pride

Vain glory or vanity is nothing else but excessive pride, regard, trust, hope, admiration or dependence in one's own or someone else's riches, wealth, social status, family background, qualification, beauty, handsomeness or stuffs like that. Oh! yes, that's just what vain glory or vanity is all about. So, beware of that. -Emeasoba George

Cînd esti iubit, suferi mai mult decît cînd nu esti. Parasit, te mîngîi prin orgoliu; dar ce consolare mai poti nascoci în fata unei inimi ce ti se deschide?

For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn't able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

At the climax of failure, at the moment when shame is about to do us in, suddenly we are swept away by a frenzy of pride which lasts only long enough to drain us, to leave us without energy, to lower, with our powers, the intensity of our shame.

Nu cunosc pe nimeni mai inutil ÅŸi mai inutilizabil ca mine. E un fapt pe care ar trebui s?-l accept pur ÅŸi simplu,f?r? s? m? consider cîtuÅŸi de puÅ£in mîndru pentru asta. Dac? nu va fi aÅŸa, conÅŸtiinÅ£a inutilit??ii mele nu-mi vaservi la nimic.

Cu cât ai îndurat mai multe nedrept??i, cu atât riÅŸti s? cazi în infatuare sau în orgoliu pur ÅŸi simplu. Orice victim? pretinde c? este un ales cu semn schimbat ÅŸi reacÅ£ioneaz? în consecin??, f?r? s?-ÅŸi închipuie c? prin asta dobândeÅŸte chiar statutul Diavolului.

Misli su se nakratko zaljubile u postojanje pa smo ponosni što jesmo. I naši koraci, lišeni sanjala?ke stidljivosti, kaljaju sjene, gaze?i ih samouvjereno i sigurno. Trenutak budnosti, samo trenutak, i mreže pri proste stvarnosti pucaju pa možemo vidjeti što smo: iluzije vlastite misli.

Rather in a gutter than on a pedestal.

Eu s? m? duc la zei? N-au decât s? vin? ei la mine!», i-a r?spuns Plotin discipolului s?u Amelius, care voia s?-l duc? la o ceremonie religioas?. La cine, în lumea creÅŸtin?, ai s? mai întâlneÅŸti un orgoliu de asemenea calitate?

Refuzul mântuirii pleac? dintr-o iubire secret? a tragediei.Este,ca ÅŸi cum,odat? mântuiÅ£i,ne-ar fi fric? s? nu fim aruncaÅ£i la coÅŸ de divinitate ÅŸi am prefera o r?t?cire pentru a ne împlini un orgoliu absolut.

Orgoliul unui om nåscut Ä«ntr o culturå micå este Ä«ntotdeauna rånit.

Ako bi samo ose?aj taštine bio dovoljan za kanonizaciju, kakav bih tek svetac bio! Na vrhu hijerarhije svetaca!

Cei care cu adevarat il simt aceia sau il tolereaza cu orgoliu sau il prezinta ca pe o calamitate. Nimeni nu este insa incantat in fondul fiintei lui de aceasta achizitie catastrofala pentru viata care este spiritul.

Mai bine s-o rupi cu toat? lumea decât s?-nghiÅ£i o umilint? dup? alta.

We all believe in many more things than we think, we harbour intolerances, we cherish bloody prejudices, and, defending our ideas with extreme means, we travel the world like ambulatory and irrefragable fortresses. Each of us is a supreme dogma to himself; no theology protects its god as we protect our self; and if we assail this self with doubts and call it into question, we do so only be a pseudo-elegance of our pride: the case is already won.

How easy it is to believe yourself a god by the heart, and how hard it is to be one by the mind!

Each of us takes on himself that unit of disaster which is the phenomenon man. And the only meaning time has is to multiply these units, endlessly to enlarge these vertical sufferings which depend upon a nonentity of matter, upon the pride of a given name, and upon a solitude without appeal.

la natura della moltitudine è tale che o serve con umiltà o domina con superbia»,

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

When you're in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It's a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

A FAMILY on the throne is an interesting idea also. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Really, his self-sufficiency is too much. I can't stand that Jupiter Olympian air of his--the only mythological character exempt, they say, from ill-luck.