Quotes About Pride

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.

I see." Charlie brushed nonexistent lint off her jeans. "Because a honey badger family is not nearly as important as a pack or pride or a teddy bear picnic." "I don't think bears call themselves . . . that.

Ears back, tail up! I got to show off the white tip on the end of my tail. It's the flag that all Shelties are proud of.

Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron

In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

Or, if he tries to get a woman to react in an insecure way but she holds herself with a level of dignity and pride, suddenly the dynamic changes.

obligation he's stuck with. This is also why giving him space is so important. It makes you look proud rather than desperate. It enables you to remain a challenge indefinitely.

Relationship Principle 1 In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

There was no idiocy bigger than that committed by a man who believed himself the cleverest creature under the sun.

She was proud one moment, covetous the next, and then fearful the moment after that. It would always be like this, wouldn't it, being the wife of a man she loved but couldn't trust, whose true motives were as murky as the bottom of the sea?

She had always known her own mind and been competent at everything she did. And he had always taken great pride in her—when she'd been the feather in his cap, the envy of his colleagues, a woman who, despite the elevated circumstances into which she had been born, had found in him everything she needed. Except that had never been true, had it? She'd always needed more. And now she had it.

She too possessed a fierce pride, alongside a bottomless need for affection and a desire to give that warred constantly with the fear of rejection.

Self-assurance, optimism, productivity, attachments of caritas to others, pride in our physical selves—these are all philosophies that enhance living. They are wellsprings largely of our own making, and they can grow in significance as we let their energies pour into the ever-widening, deepening channel of experience and wisdom.

It is an honor to be despised by fools.

more. I got my life as a gift. I'll give it up without an overdraft. Every once in a while, someone will ask me to look back on my career and identify the achievement in my life of which I am proudest. I respond by telling them the story of a great painter, who was once approached by an admirer of his art. "Which

Suddenly, it became very important that he like me, more for my pride than anything else. If anyone was doing the rejecting, I wanted it to be me

Never be proud but show humility towards others, true wisdom lies in being humble.

All sufferings come from false pride.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

You know exactly how to dress me up, Daddy." "I do, boy. And I love that everyone is looking." "You also love that I'm yours.

Clubs are all about winning. National teams, however, have an additional function: to incarnate the nation.

The need to bring down to our own wretched level, to deface, to deride and debunk any splendour that is towering above us, is probably the saddest urge of human nature.