Quotes About Pride

Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?

some patients resist the diagnosis of a post-traumatic disorder. They may feel stigmatized by any psychiatric diagnosis or wish to deny their condition out of a sense of pride. Some people feel that acknowledging psychological harm grants a moral victory to the perpetrator, in a way that acknowledging physical harm does not.

Humility is easy, although Miss Manners much admires brilliant humility. The usual variety, with its claims about feeling awed and hoping to be worthy, is tiresome. But it is extremely difficult to make others acquainted with how very much one has to be humble about. No, that's not quite what Miss Manners meant to say. What is difficult is to establish gracefully that one has cause to be proud and haughty, before one can be contrastingly humble. The

I used to be ashamed And now I am proud. The world once was black And now it is bright. I used to walk head bent And now I stand up tall. I used to have dreams But now I have hope.

He didn't want to puff her up. Puffed-up women are one of the original sources of trouble in the world. If anyone knew that, it was he. He counted it as one of his duties to mankind to keep women from puffing themselves up, though it had been a most monumental duty in his own marriage. A job requiring a hero. It was one of those things that God, being male, questioned you about before you were let into heaven, and he was proud to say that he hadn't neglected it.

yourself in such a manner?

family or friends, for most of them would believe him to be still at The Pride, enjoying Grandpa's seventy-fifth birthday dinner. It could be Con – Con did not like him to be alone on family occasions – but why should Con come across the water, in Pat Paterson's row-boat, with Pat straining at the oars? The boat had swung towards his landing stage

One acts with dignity," he said, "as much as one may. One compromises only as much as one must, and still remain oneself. And one keeps one's pride, even if one must keep it in secret, where only God can see.

What's your dad do? I said. Designs new and better wings for new and better sing nuts, he said proudly. It sounded like he was repeating something a sarcastic adult had said.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Inzwischen glaubte Linda, dass das menschliche Schicksal nicht an Gott, sondern am Grundbesitz hing. Transzendentale Obdachlosigkeit war keine Folge des Religionsverlusts, sondern der Inflation von Mietwohnungen. Sie war stolz darauf, mit ihrer großen, heruntergekommenen Villa ein Bollwerk gegen den Zeitgeist zu errichten.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

El Señor no tolera ni el orgullo ni la soberbia en sus criaturas. No se puede desafiar a Dios, ni pretender acercarse a los límites que ha establecido entre el Cielo y la Tierra.*

Los hombres nos olvidamos de que somos una mota de su aliento y tendemos a creernos que no lo necesitamos, pero otras veces le reprocharemos que no esté para ayudarnos cuando lo necesitamos.

She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.

He was proud and stubborn, and all the ton looked up to him. Men curried his favor, women flirted like mad. And all the while he'd been terrified every time he'd opened his mouth.

Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything...It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade.

She didn't want to be commended for knowing how to settle for second-best. That was like winning a prize for the prettiest shoes in a footrace. Irrelevant and not the point.

You will always be a Bridgerton, and we behave with honor and honesty, not because it is expected of us, but because that is what we are.

Duels have been fought for less." "By idiots!

She enjoyed all of her names, and she was proud of every last one, but the one she liked best was Lottie. Lottie. It was the simplest of the bunch, but that wasn't why she liked it. Her tastes rarely ran to the simple, after all. She liked her wigs tall and her dresses grand and she was quite certain no one in her household appreciated the complexities of music or art as keenly as she did.

You obviously take great pride in what you do," he said. "I thought you hated this position." "I do. But that doesn't mean that I will do less than my best. That would be unfair to Neville." "Neville is a brat." "Yes, but he deserves a good education.

We are not here to discuss my family," he ground out. "We are here to discuss your foolhardy behavior." "I refuse to acknowledge my behavior as fool-hardy. You would have done the exact same thing were you in my shoes.

First and foremost, Indiana will always be a basketball state.