Quotes About Pride

Contain yourselves from the ungoverned wildness of pride, the sluggish voluptuousness of luxury, and the false name of knowledge: that so the wild beasts may be tamed, the cattle broken to the yoke, the serpents, harmless.

In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where theres the temple of an emperor, where theres a fishermans tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn.

Whether or not we feel proud of the way we have lived will hinge mainly on our marriage and our parenting.

Bütün yontulmam?? varl?klarda olduÄŸu gibi onda da gülünç bir kendini beÄŸenmiÅŸlik vard?.

Arzuland??? zaman güzeldi, zeki insanlar?n aras?nda nüktedand?, gururu okÅŸand???nda kibirliydi, sevildiÄŸi zaman a??kt?.

and it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former glory of the fame of Viennese culture.

Robespierre) SaÄŸduyu ve erdeme a??r? baÄŸnazl?kla baÄŸl? bir kiÅŸi olarak, kar??s?ndakilerin anlaÅŸmak ve boyun eÄŸmek için yapt?klar? bütün baÅŸvurmalar? geri çevirir. Hatta politikan?n anlaÅŸmaya zorlad??? durumlarda bile onun sert kinciliÄŸi ve kat? gururu buna engel olur.

O da kad?nlar?n çoÄŸu gibi baÅŸkalar?n?n ruh halinden beslenirdi. Arzuland??? zaman güzeldi, zeki insanlar?n aras?nda nüktedand?, gururu okÅŸand???nda kibirliydi, sevildiÄŸi zaman a??kt?.

Like all headstrong types, Czentovic had no sense of the ridiculous; ever since his triumph in the world tournament, he considered himself the most important man in the world, and the awareness that he had beaten all these clever, intellectual, brilliant speakers and writers on their own ground, and above all the evident fact that he made more money than they did, transformed his original lack of self-confidence into a cold pride that for the most part he did not trouble to hide.

At eighty-five, she had paid the inevitable tribute to old age. Her sight was failing, she was growing deaf, she had lost all her teeth, she walked with difficulty. To so proud, so autocratic a woman what could seem more terrible than to expose her infirmities to hostile eyes?

Bir gün çocuksu bir gururla —belki de hâlâ o gururla hareket ediyorumdur— evinin önüne gelmedim; fakat inat ve isyanla dolu o boÅŸ akÅŸam ne korkunçtu. Ertesi akÅŸam tekrar evinin önünde gururu k?r?lm?? bir ÅŸekilde duruyor, bütün kaderim boyunca bana kapal? olan yaÅŸam?n?n önünde yapt???m gibi bekliyor, bekliyordum.

His young man's limbs, sleek in their dark male pride, seemed to disdain the covering offered them by the brief shorts and striped jersey. His body might have been naked, like his full, muscled throat, which rose, round and proud as the male organ of a flower, from the neck of his sweater.

Should my husband ever finish my "sock," I will wear it proudly (and singularly) for all of my days. He is my mate; my sock doesn't need one.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.

Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.