Quotes About Pride

There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is to say the great pine tree of which they were each a little splinter, had been the giant of the forest.

inculcated with a healthy national consciousness.

As my orderly Erich Beck later wrote, "We admired our opponents for their national pride and commitment. They demanded our respect. We heard that a Polish cavalry regiment had mounted an attack against our tanks. They had been told that the German tanks were only wooden dummies.

The fierce pride I had in my being was hurt by the slow disintegration of his own.

Suffering comes to ennoble man, to purge his thoughts of pride and superficiality, to expand his horizons. In sum, the purpose of suffering is to repair that which is faulty in a man's personality.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

Here, also, in summer, various brilliant annuals, such as marigolds, petunias, four-o'clocks, found an indulgent corner in which to unfold their splendors, and were the delight and pride of Aunt Chloe's heart.

feel a rush of something. Pride, I think. I'm not always good at naming my feelings – it's something I used to practice

chosen to complement the curtains and feel quite unjustifiably proud that that a sister of mine

for me to ask for a raise is—is demeaning.

You know, we have a saying that other people boast of the beauty of their women; we boast of our old men.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that , maybe we wouldn't have so many wars.

And in those changes to the Scriptures of your faith you only prove that you didn't know what you were doing in the first place. Picking and choosing your faith promises the ultimate freedom to be who you want and do what you want, but eventually it will only prove to you that to live for yourself and to make your law based on your own happiness is to become the slave of your imperfect self and to be tortured and tormented by your own pride and failure.

Obstinate silence implies either a mean opinion of ourselves, or a contempt for our company; and it is the more provoking, as others do not know to which of these causes to attribute it?whether humility or pride.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing. Both consist in setting a just value on ourselves?neither more nor less.

Hello there," she said. Then she remembered she hated him and frowned. "What are you doing here?" "Your horse returned without you early this morning. I feared the worst." Her heart stuttered, but she wouldn't give him the satisfaction of gratitude. She huffed. "I didn't need you to come rescue me, you know." "And yet here I am.

Cómo caíste del cielo... (Isaías 14:12)

Pride is the mask we make of our faults

I would not regret putting a hole in your arrogant chest, only it would be deflected when it hit that piece of rock you call a heart.

But I do know that any place where there are six novels by the author of Pride and Prejudice must be a very special sort of heaven.

As the impudence of flattery, so the impudence of egotism.