Quotes About Pride

Behold the rich farm boy Malachy Burns Who plays his pipe among the churns. He's a coward, he's benighted, He makes everyone feel slighted, And all things but music he spurns.

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

He was one of those who manage to combine almost total failure with breathtaking arrogance

But she did feel rather proud of him for once, which was a nice sensation.

Dabei steckte mir nach meiner traurigen Jugend das altbekannte, für die späte Pubertät so typische Gefühlsgemisch aus Stolz und Verzweiflung noch tief in den Knochen, wenn man sich hochnäsig für etwas Besseres hält, aber gleichzeitig an sozialer Paranoia leidet.

She doesn't want his sympathy. She hates pity.

He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.

Czechoslovakian

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

Men were far more delicate to deal with than women were, she thought to herself. Their pride made the most reasonable solutions difficult.

I am a woman. And I am seeking an attitude. I am trying to find reasons for pride.

Como era tan presumida como hermosa, si no se veía adorada, se sentía como desdeñada. Parecía convencida de que, si se rendía de amor ante alguien, se rebajaba.

The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within..

ego —! There's nothing more powerful when it comes to destroying a man, my friend. Nothing else that would assure his swift and inglorious descent into Pathalam, the goriest underworld!

The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love the pride of my adversaries, of my servants, and my lover; and my house shall be, in all humility, in the wilderness a civilized place.

Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

She must not look too proud nor yet too humble, lest people say she is proud of her humility." Excerpt From: Catherine, Called Birdy.

we are all wont to make mistakes, but if we learn from each trick, each error, and refuse to allow it to happen again, then the experience is not a loss, but a lifelong gain. Our pride may sting for the moment, but our future will be the better for it.

Dementia was an unforgiving illness, one that stole hope and crumbled pride.

No soft-skinned, lace-covered, dandified profligate would ever take this house and make it his. Ever.

It is a foolish man who apologizes without reason.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged in intellectual pursuits but is a regular occurrence in all neurosis.

The central inner conflict is one between the constructive forces of the real self and the obstructive forces of the pride system, between healthy growth and the drive to prove in actuality the perfection of the idealized self.