Quotes About Pride

Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

The tyrannosaurus looked a little shamefaced - but only a little, for dinosaurs would rather drown in tar than admit they're wrong. That unfortunate attitude played a key role in their extinction.

It's different. When you make a house good and strong because it's your house, a place you made, a place you're proud of, it's not at all the same as making it glow for someone who ordered you to do it.

So we blame ourselves for being too outspoken or too proud or too ambitious.

The rise of white nationalism has led to many nonwhites defending their identities with rage and pride as well as demanding reparative action to compensate for centuries of whites' plundering from non-Western cultures.

Il ne faut pas avoir peur de regarder les choses en face. La vie est le résultat de la malpropreté. Si la nature avait été bien tenue, la vie ne serait jamais apparue. La vie est née de quelques vagues saletés au fond d'une flaque d'eau boueuse. La vie, donc l'homme. Il n'y a vraiment pas de quoi être fier.

Perhaps it was pride, merely, to seek these souls that God had chosen to abandon. Perhaps it was in itself a sin….

Jarret interrupted. "Colonel Bruce, you must be aware of the rising difficulty for men like me in the thoroughbred world. You must know that for some who supported the Southern cause, the war is not over. They deplore their reduced circumstances and do not care to see someone like me

I think that you have mistaken pride for faith, as so many do.

Go ragged then, but pride makes a poor covers; once one man laughs you're naked.

Ik tors drie lasten: ik ben homoseksueel, ik ben katholiek, en ik ben blank. Moet ik mij daarvoor schamen? Geenszins! (Goedkeurend gemompel.) Homoseksueel ben ik bij geboorte, en rooms-katholiek ben ik door genade: aan geen van beide is dus ene moer meer te doen. En kan men mij verwijten dat ik blank ben? Ik zoude niet weten hoe. Ik schaam mij er niet voor dat ik blank ben, en ik houd het ook niet geheim: ik zoude dat niet eens willen. (Geroep: "Die man die heb gelijk!")

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Como todas las grandes pestes, también esta ínfima peste mía terminaba con una lluvia. Junto con el agua que manaba de mi pelo y me surcaba las mejillas, el mal se desprendía de mí, partía. Pero con él, todo resto de orgullo; con él, tal vez, la juventud.

peoples, like so many beasts, have fallen into the custom of each man thinking only of his own private interests and have reached the extreme of delicacy, or better of pride, in which like wild animals they bristle and lash out at the slightest displeasure. Thus no matter how great the throng and press of their bodies, they live like wild beasts in a deep solitude of spirit and will, scarcely any two being able to agree since each follows his own pleasure and caprice.

It is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

The vain man does not think he is vain.

His son shall call himself the King of Kings, heir to the Empire of Cyrus. He shall raise this child from the ashes and give her pride.' 'But beware! For the King of Kings shall fall, and his throne shall crumble, and the men of God shall paint the skies of the nation with blood.' She held the child up, against the light, and gave her a name: 'Peacock.

I am proud because I understand that there are times when self-preservation is more important than sentiment, especially when one is a mother, and I could not afford to be perpetually devoured from the inside out, surrendering my hours and days and weeks and months to this turbulent anxiety

People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Por ahora, sólo nuestras palabras son propias de titantes, pero nuestras obras son de hormigas y topos. Incluso las termitas nos pueden dar lecciones de grandeza. El hombre moderno, a pesar de su jactancia, piensa como Gulliver y no se da cuenta que vive al nivel de Liliput.