Quotes About Pride

His voice sounded more sincere in these surroundings, less distorted by pride and pain.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.

A man can live his whole life following the rules set down by happenstance and the cash-coated bait of security-cosseted morality; an entire lifetime and in the end he wouldn't have done one thing to be proud of.

In reconstructing African civilisations, the concern is to indicate that African social life had meaning and value, and that the African past is one with which the black man in the Americas can identify with pride.

Beauty is in the very existence of black people.

Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul!

simplicity may be improved, but pride and conceit never. Well

I desire no man's regard, Mr. Rashleigh, on such terms as must sink me in my own.

his avowal of follies and excess seemed uttered rather in the spirit of wounded pride, than in that of contrition.

my principal fault was an unconquerable pitch of pride, which exposed me to frequent mortification.

All my life long I have been more melted by the distress under which a strong, proud, and powerful mind is compelled to give way, than by the more easily excited sorrows of softer dispositions.

he was too proud a man to be a vain one.

The two guys who ran the place, always in Williamsburg hipster uniforms of short-sleeved shirts and neatly trimmed beards that looked stuck on with spirit gum, paid, as ever, no attention to anything but the food and the money. Tallow imagined that every night they counted their money and prided themselves on having not made eye contact with anything human.

Los que somos tan justos según nuestra propia opinión, y sin embargo, tan ciegos, necesitamos tener a lo menos una vez en la vida un encuentro con la autoridad de Dios para que seamos quebrantados hasta la sumisión y comencemos así a aprender la obediencia a su autoridad. Antes de que un hombre pueda someterse a la autoridad delegada de Dios tiene que conocer primero la autoridad inherente de Dios.

So raise your children to be self-sufficient, to make their own decisions as soon as they're able, and to feel pride in the decisions they do make.

Take pride in refusing to take credit for the achievements of others.

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

But purity of heart isn't limited to matters of sex. It's about not letting lesser loves or sins distract us from the Lord. We need to guard our hearts not just against lust and pornography, but also against gossip, anger, pride, greed, and selfishness. This keeps us on a path to God with his grace, and it leads us to the joy of one day seeing him.

Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.

Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school... Do not look upon it as a punishment, but rather as a privilege... We are very proud of you, and want you to have a good education. This note will self-destruct in five seconds.

An enthusiastic philosopher, of whose name we are not informed, had constructed a very satisfactory theory on some subject or other, and was not a little proud of it. "But the facts, my dear fellow," said his friend, "the facts do not agree with your theory."—"Don't they?" replied the philosopher, shrugging his shoulders, "then, tant pis pour les faits ;"—so much the worse for the facts!

Look down on me and you see a fool, look up at me and you see a god. Look straight at me and you see yourself.

People need self-respect, that self respect must be earned – it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned – and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.