Quotes About Pride

The word "truth" applies to a man's dignity.

You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.

For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?

Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.

Truth doesn't hurt. It is only pride that hurts after hearing the truth.

In this day and age we care more about our pride than our lives.

Despite, or because of their faith in miraculous cures, a strain of superstitious belief ran through this proud, emotionally distant family of intellectuals.

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.

Being Palestinian," I said, "means never having to say you're sorry.

But Josef, like many boys of nineteen, was under the misapprehension that his heart had been broken a number of times, and he prided himself on the imagined toughness of that organ.

All these years in the straight life and she still had a whore's pride.

pride gets in the way of a lot of the right decisions

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All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

He had a term for people like this: temporal provincials—people who were ignorant of the past, and proud of it.

He had a term for people like this: temporal provincials—people who were ignorant of the past, and proud of it. Temporal provincials were convinced that the present was the only time that mattered, and that anything that had occurred earlier could be safely ignored.

This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm, right?

I was still struggling to invent an alternate version of myself, someone proud and unflinching who could gaze levelly at his father and tell him his last secrets. I wanted him to know me; to have seen me. I'd been waiting until I was settled and fulfilled, so as to present myself in terms of a happiness he might understand.

He felt very lonely, yet there was a kind of pride in his loneliness.

envy is the one deadly sin that no American can ever admit to...

Villains are just there, like rust, dull and almost chemical in the stupid simplicity of their greed or pride.

Nationalism is a distorting mirror in which believers see their simple ethnic, religious, or territorial attributes transformed into glorious attributes and qualities.