Quotes About Pride

The Dandelion" O dandelion, rich and haughty, King of village flowers! Each day is coronation time, You have no humble hours. I like to see you bring a troop To beat the blue-grass spears, To scorn the lawn-mower that would be Like fate's triumphant shears. Your yellow heads are cut away, It seems your reign is o'er. By noon you raise a sea of stars More golden than before.

When all else fails, go for the ego.

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

Solamente las mujeres que confían plenamente en sí mismas, las arrogantes, las extrovertidas, las orgullosas, las poseedoras de mentes rigurosas, son capaces de mantener una conversación intensa, audaz, ingeniosa.

La victoria tiene muchos padres, pero la derrota es huérfana.

patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed – while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.

Hay que tener cuidado con la soberbia, porque es más dañosa para el entendimiento que la ignorancia.

How come no one ever warned you that life would be fraught with mixed messages? That success, for example, is just another word for a lot more work? That what's called freedom is only the right to do what's allowed? And you'd derive a lot more pride from your friend's achievements than from your own?

To me, the satisfaction of the service, well done, is more than anything that any amount of money can give. This you might call is the satisfaction you get for your services towards your own people and country ... But most important of all is to leave a name that my posterity may be proud of.

the new consumerism promoted all the deadly sins (lust, covetousness, gluttony, pride, envy) except perhaps anger and sloth.

To assert that military history suggested that wars broke out because bad men, in fear or in pride, sought material advantage or status, or because sometimes good but naive men had done too little to deter them, was understandably seen as antithetical to a more enlightened understanding of human nature.

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Write with love, write with joy, and write with pride.

What's really important in life Sitting on a beach Looking a television eight hours a day I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.

An arrogant man knows his own worth, and if he is clever as well, knows yours.

It takes just a litte attitudinal slip to show a big pride.

And no, I think i'm better than you because I am better than you.

Arrogance is the last thing to die

There is no shame in black beauty.

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.