Quotes About Pride

Es una suerte poder desdeñar a alguien cuando la mayoría de nosotras se contenta con decir «¡Gracias!». Es como si lo oyera: «No, señor… valgo más que usted» o «Béseme los pies; mi cara es sólo para bocas importantes».

Her original vigorous pride of youth had sickened, and with it had declined all her anxieties about coming years, since anxiety recognizes a better and a worse alternative, and Bathsheba had made up her mind that alternatives on any noteworthy scale had ceased for her.

I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.

So liegen also in der menschlichen Natur drei hauptsächliche Konfliktursachen: Erstens Konkurrenz, zweitens Mißtrauen, drittens Ruhmsucht.

Fawn, build your self-esteem, your pride, your independence, with what you know, not with what you own. Avoid debt.

Then I just asked myself a simple question: Is the "pride of new car ownership"—and that's all it is, pride—worth $20,000? The cars are the same. The answer is no. The "pride of new car ownership" is not worth $20,000.

Is the "pride of new car ownership"—and that's all it is, pride—worth $20,000?

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute.

And so she went on, galloping through thickets of diphthongs, searching—I was sure—for the sound that would not disgrace her husband, and failing at every turn.

Hans Castorp was, for his own person, quite without arrogance; yet a larger arrogance, the pride of caste and tradition, stood written on his brow and in his sleepy-looking eyes, and voiced itself in the conviction of his own superiority, which came over him when he measured Frau Chauchat for what she was.

La vanidad no es algo grande y la grandeza no puede por tanto ser vanidosa .

Si vantano di ciò che dovrebbero vergognarsi, e ostentano ciò che dovrebbero nascondere.

Children of sin are we all. But to me it often seems as though a contradiction were in the world between sinfulness and high courage, between the wretchedness of the flesh and its pride. If it be corrupt, how then can it gaze free and bold and brace itself to such a noble gait that it fills with pride even the beholder? The spirit is ware of our unworth, yet unconcerned with its knowledge Nature considers herself worthy.

I have enough dignity to squander quite a lot.

?itaju?i te izjave kod svoje ku?e, konzul se nije mogao suzdržati od smiješka, jer uprkos bola koji se o?itovao u tim rije?ima, osje?ao se je u njima i neki šaljivi ponos. Znao je da je Tony Boddenbrook ostala dijete, i da je svoje vrlo odrasle doživljaje doživljavala najpre kao da pravo ne vjeruje, a onda djetinjasto ozbiljno i dijetinjasto važno, i što je glavno, s djetinjom otpornoš?u.

Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real

It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God – acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him and dependent, by His will, on material things, too.

It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but the anxiety to be heard. The words of the proud man impose silence on all others, so that he alone may be heard. The humble man speaks only in order to be spoken to.

The proud man loves his own illusion and self-sufficiency. The spiritually poor man loves his very insufficiency.

But the pride of those who live as if they believed they were better than anyone else is rooted in a secret failure to believe in their own goodness.

only God's truth without limit, without defect, without stain. This clean light, which tastes of Paradise, is beyond all pride, beyond comment, beyond proprietorship, beyond solitude. It is in all and for all. It is the true light that shines in everyone, in every man coming into this world. It is the light of Christ, Who stands in the midst of us and we know Him not.

Instead of worshipping God through His creation we are always trying to worship ourselves by means of creatures. But

When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.