Quotes About Pride

but she had the fierce pride in it that essentially non-creative persons always seemed to work up over a more or less fortuitous piece of creation.

boasts are wind and deeds are hard.

Su misma superioridad lo perdió

solo una mentira que no se avergonzara de sí misma conseguiría tener éxito.

No es desagradable la ostentación que esas gentes hacían de sus creaciones? ¿Quién puede ser tan estúpido como para creer a una persona que ensalza su propio producto? ¿Acaso va a confesar sus defectos? ¿Retrocederá ante cualquier exageración?

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.

El orgullo de quien se cree hermosa daba a su andar un ritmo insolente.

Nada nos divierte tanto a los chilenos como burlarnos de nosotros mismos, aunque jamás soportaríamos que lo hiciese un extranjero.

Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia. No eres tan importante.

pretendieron regalarle ropa a Valdivia y otros capitanes, pero no hay peor ofensa para un español que recibir caridad.

I need nothing, he told himself with the cunning pride of those with a calling for solitude.

He was proud of his calloused hands with cracked nails and dry red skin. "Working hands, honest hands," he'd say.

He was proud of the fact that he did not owe anyone anything

wretchedness of some and the arrogance of

Con cada amor volvemos a nacer y con cada amor que termina se nos abre una herida. Estoy llena de orgullosas cicatrices.

but had always felt she was a visitor. She felt disconnected and different everywhere else too, but far from being a problem this gave her a sense of pride, as it added to her view of herself as a distant, mysterious artist vaguely superior to the rest of mortals.

male vanity goes deeper and is costlier.

but his monumental pride prevented him from recognizing in the man any virtues beyond those that marked him as a good peon.

Si esprimeva con un tono di tale superiorità che mi tornò in mente l'opinione del maestro Juan Ribero, secondo il quale la vanagloria è prerogativa degli ignoranti; il saggio è umile perché sa di sapere poco.

Mapu-ché, «gente de la tierra», así se llaman ellos mismos

Later Tomás de Romeu asked Diego why he had challenged Moncada if he was not prepared to shoot him. Diego replied that he had never intended to carry a death on his conscience; all he had wanted was to humiliate him.

Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia.

Manda tu superego al carajo, hombre. Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia. No eres tan importante.

I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.