Quotes About Pride

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

I won't let anyone talk to my wife that way, Gray said, his voice with a steely edge. I know that underneath that expensive tux you're nothing but a mama's boy sucking off your father's money and looking for a wealthy woman to keep you doing nothing for the rest of your life. I just want you to understand that beneath my tux is a rough and tumble cowboy who will kick your ever-loving ass to hell and back if you ever talk about my wife in derogatory terms again.

Il di lei vanto sta nel disprezzare le donne». «E il vostro nel vincere tutti gli uomini». «Tutti no». «Tutti sì».

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you.

When you wake the town this morning, ring the bells as if you were the greatest musician on earth. Make each stroke count. Invent sounds you've never heard before. Reach deep down inside you for inspiration. Make your grandfather pround.

Arrogance covers up insecurities.

How about an ostentation of peacocks? A parliament of owls. A knot of frogs or a skulk of foxes?

Mallory took no great pride in this, for defeating the FBI's outdated system was a rite of passage for small children all over America.

In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess—the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a virtue.

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

Whatever happens I want you to think of yourselves as young Americans, and I want you to be proud of that. It is difficult to tell you about England, because there all men are not free to pursue their own lives in their own ways. Some men live like princes, while other men must beg for the very crusts that keep them alive.

I mean, if a man's really master of his house, he doesna need to tell folks so.

there's only a razor's edge between self-confidence and hubris.

In summary, people who believe in fixed traits feel an urgency to succeed, and when they do, they may feel more than pride. They may feel a sense of superiority, since success means that their fixed traits are better than other people's. However, lurking behind that self-esteem of the fixed mindset is a simple question: If you're somebody when you're successful, what are you when you're unsuccessful?

the somebody–nobody syndrome. If I win, I'll be somebody; if I lose I'll be nobody.

Recuerda que en la mentalidad fija el esfuerzo no es causa de orgullo, sino algo que proyecta dudas sobre tu talento.

We cannot avoid our psychological blind spots, but if we are unaware of them, we may become unwittingly reckless, crossing ethical lines and making foolish decisions. Introspection alone will not help our vision, because it will simply confirm our self-justifying beliefs that we, personally, cannot be co-opted or corrupted and that our dislikes or hatreds of other groups are not irrational but reasoned and legitimate. Blind spots enhance our pride and activate our prejudices.

Self-justification is complicated enough when it follows our conscious choices and we know we can expect it. But it also occurs in the aftermath of things we do for unconscious reasons, when we haven't a clue about why we hold some belief or cling to some custom but are too proud to admit it.

but it didn't make up for the indignity inflicted by the careless arrogance of the young.

I own every book Stephen King has ever written." "That's great. That's something to be proud of." But did you read them, fuckface?

Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is—she's a hero.