Quotes About Pride

She knows very well that the way to find happiness in this world is not to hate your life but to somehow learn how to accept your life. Take pride in your work, whatever it is. Derive whatever pleasure you can from whatever surrounds you—the sky, the people you like, the light falling on the brick wall.

I tell him I am proud of his genius for construction, but he says he has no genius for anything, he just never knows when he is beaten.

I am terribly glad to be alive and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American with all the rights and privileges that those words connote. And most of all I am humbled before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

Bantams in Pine-Woods" Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt! Damned universal cock, as if the sun Was blackamoor to bear your blazing tail. Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat! I am the personal. Your world is you. I am my world. You ten-foot poet among inchlings. Fat! Begone! An inchling bristles in these pines, Bristles, and points their Appalachian tangs, And fears not portly Azcan nor his hoos.

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

It is very seldom that one encounters what would appear to be sheer unadulterated evil in a human face; an evil, I mean, active, deliberate, deadly, dangerous. Folly, heedlessness, vanity, pride, craft, meanness, stupidity - yes. But even Iagos in this world are few, and devilry is as rare as witchcraft. ("Bad Company")

Black Minx never moved. She seemed to know what this was all about. She accepted their offerings, their embraces, in a very queenly way. Her manner indicated that she was getting only what was long due her, and that she had known all along no colt would beat her in the Kentucky Derby. Perhaps she had known. Alec and Henry wouldn't have been surprised. She was that kind of girl.

Calvinism that does not humble has missed its mark.

there would be no "humiliation" if we had learned to put self in its place, to see ourselves in proper perspective before God and other men.

Qué se opone a la arrogancia/soberbia? La virtud de la humildad, la cual consiste en reconocerse a sí mismo tal como uno es, sin sobrevalorase ni despreciarse.

I'm putting it to my black brothers and sisters that the colour of our skins is the most fundamental thing about us.

A mother's pride, a father's joy.

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

Posidonius holds that riches are a cause of evil, not because they do evil themselves but because of the evil they goad men to do. . . . Riches puff up the spirit and beget pride. They bring on envy and unsettle the mind to such an extent that a reputation for having money delights us, even when that reputation will do us harm. Seneca, Epistles 87.31

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

When one tries to increase his knowledge by doing mental gymnastics over books without waiting upon God and looking to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, his soul is plainly in full swing. This will deplete his spiritual life. Because the fall of man was occasioned by seeking knowledge, God uses the foolishness of the cross to "destroy the wisdom of the wise.

If we throw ourselves open to God, He will reveal. The trouble comes when we have closed areas, locked and barred places in our hearts, where we think, with pride, that we are right.

Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.

He choked back tears, but he felt a great swelling of pride most of all. Antoinette, Robby-they had done it. They had made the right decision.

Yes, yes," Gee Sook said. "Look how Jung stands like a man today.