Quotes About Pride

Amor - Dupla satisfação da vaidade e do sentimento de poder.

O mundo, que está cheio de orgulhosos, também está cheio de admiradores. O mistério dissipa-se, quando se descobre que a admiração é a maneira mais nobre e pudica de afirmar a superioridade daquele que admira.

Como todos os deicidas, o Cientista é, na sua essência, tentador. Adula no homem a sua própria soberba, e domina-o prometendo-lhe a dominação.

Mercadores Quando Napoleão, por despeito, chamava «país de comerciantes» à Inglaterra, ressurgia nele o remoto antagonismo entre o fidalgo que paga com o seu sangue e o lojista que paga com o ouro o sangue dos outros.

I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.

even if we returned to the dirt and the wind and the rain like the plants and the animals, we had a bigness in us. Something beyond algorithms and beyond Upgrades-- something we were proud to call human. Or so it seemed to me.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.

The reason to have history is to be able to say, 'This is where you came from. This is what it cost. This is what happened to us. This is what we fought against. This is what we did when we won. This is who we are.

The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it

self esteem isn't everything. it's just that there's nothing without it

I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

God challenged me to match my outsides with my insides. I had to reevaluate my priorities and my expectations for myself. It was a time of brutal honesty, loneliness, and shattered pride. But it was drenched in a message of hope and redemption.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

Inoltre apprezza più il mio ingegno e i miei talenti che non il mio cuore, che invece è il mio solo orgoglio ed è l'unica sorgente di tutto, di ogni energia, beatitudine e miseria... Ah, chiunque può sapere quello che so io... Ma il mio cuore l'ho soltanto io.

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strength, happiness and misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

Patriotism ruins history.

Don't be humble . . . you're not that great.

Don't be humble. Your not that great.

Don't be so humble, you are not that great.

Dont be so humble you're not that great

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

Most of you will marry and have children. They will become the source of your greatest pride and happiness. I hope so. Rear them in love. You don't have to kick them around. You don't have to get angry with them. You just have to love them. If they make mistakes, forgive them and help them to avoid a repetition. But let them see in you their truest and best friend, their constant support.

Interpretation that aims at, or thrives on, uniqueness can usually be attributed to pride (an attempt to "outclever" the rest of the world), a false understanding of spirituality (wherein the Bible is full of deeply buried truths waiting to be mined by the spiritually sensitive person with special insight), or vested interests (the need to support a theological bias, especially in dealing with texts that seem to go against that bias).