Quotes About Pride

For a moment, without thinking of anything else, Jenny was simply proud of him. Fiercely, passionately proud that a human, a seventeen-year-old who hadn't even heard of the Shadow Men until a month ago, could stand up to them like this. Could conceal his terror and smile that way and offer to die.

Quería a Stefan. Y a Damon su orgullo jamás le permitiría pedirle a Elena lo que sólo él deseaba, e igualmente tampoco le permitiría tomarlo sin que ella consintiera... O eso esperaba.

I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever in self-sacrifice, nothing to pride oneself on.

False modesty is the last refinement of vanity.

The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

No people are more often wrong than those who will not allow themselves to be wrong.

We confess small faults to insinuate that we have no great ones.

'Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.

We often glory in the most criminal passions; but envy is a shameful passion we never dare own.

It is our own vanity that makes the vanity of others intolerable to us.

In Vietnamese, the word for water and the word for a nation, a country, and a homeland are one and the same: nu'ó'c.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition." He

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

By contrast, the grime of her journey, the outré inappropriateness of the state of her, it felt like armor. I earned this dirt. Respect. The dirt.

You don't have to be ashamed »

Si dovrebbe morire orgogliosamente quando non è più possibile vivere orgogliosamente.

Surely there are other ways to live—" "No. Only death remains. One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Nietzsche said that, you know. Wise man. Large mustache." "Izîl, you can't mean you want to die." "If only there was a way to be free…

Mengira bahwa kita bisa pergi begitu saja dan tak dirindukan adalah keangkuhan yang paling luar biasa.

Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our nature, that every little spark sets us on fire; our nature hath grown so light, that every little thing puffeth us up, and sets us aloft in our altitudes presently.

Glory can be safely despised by those only who have fairly won it.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.