Quotes About Pride

Oh, don't look so morally offended. Don't forget that if you get up on your high horse it's a long way to fall." He looked at his watch. "Do you know how late it is? Time for your next class." I lifted my chin. "You're right there," I said, trying to sound as icily scornful as possible. "My high horse and I must just go and find a toilet to throw up in first, because this conversation makes us sick to our stomachs.

En su cimbreo rojo rubí oye el cuervo cantar a los muertos, apenas conoce el precio, apenas la fuerza, el poder se alza y el Círculo se cierra. Del orgulloso león de faz de diamante, vela el súbito hechizo la luz brillante. Con el sol que agoniza él cambia la suerte, y el final revela, del cuervo, la muerte. De los Escritos secretos del conde de Saint Germain

I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.

Anything lost, can be found again expect for time wasted. A vision without action is merely a dream. Its the action that's pride, its the hustle, its the persistence.

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.

I don't know what I'm saying, really, but I guess it's like having a kid, though I don't have any kids. It's yours, you made it, and no matter what happens, you have that pride of ownership. You love it, even it it didn't amount to much.

The Muslims had become masters of Hindustan. They were quite willing to let us Hindus live our lives as we wanted to provided we recognized them as our rulers. But the Hindus were full of foolish pride. 'This is our country!' they said. 'We will drive out these cow-killers and destroyers of our temples.' They were especially contemptuous towards Hindus who had embraced Islam and treated them worse than untouchables.

How do you know I'm a romanticist?" Like most romanticists Anwar too prided himself on being a realist.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

Fear of failure is an insidious thing. Leads people to pretend they never wanted a medal in the first place.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it

Jamal takes a long breath. A tear slides down his cheek. When he squares his shoulders, my heart bursts with pride. He won't let them break him.

Because, Mom, I'm really proud of you for finally standing up for yourself and ending things with Daddy.

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.

But then, how could you have any self-respect knowing that you didn't believe in anything exactly? How did you embrace what was yours if you didn't leave something for it? How did you create a life of meaning and pride?

Chakotay took his hand before replying, "If you'll permit me the presumption, I've never been more proud of a journey I've witnessed than yours. If anyone had told me the day Voyager first set her course back to the Alpha Quadrant that this is where Tom Paris would be now, I wouldn't have believed it.

Nobody cares if I die for fighting Marathi breed....

I am gay, and that's a good thing.

Don't you feel shame? I thought scum like you could at least feel shame

And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height

James 4:6: "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

The walk of shame, please. It was the walk of pride today.

His child was now officially smarter than he was, and he didn't like it.

Humiliated men could be dangerous.