Quotes About Pride

Bah; déjame en paz!—concluyó cada vez más irritado con mi tranquilidad, que era para él otra manifestación de orgullo. Cada

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! . . . For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. . . . I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. Isaiah 14:12–14

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

The boastful are thin-skinned and the intolerant are forever looking over their shoulders

It is the sin of pride and arrogance that has tended to vitiate the missionary impulse and to make of it an instrument of self-righteousness on the one hand and racial superiority on the other.

met mijn schijnbare trots als onmisbaar pantser voor mijn kwetsbaarheid in een al met al vrij crapuleuze wereld

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others.

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

We need not worship the nation to which we belong.

It is a victory of shit and our defeat. Call it a defeat, but of courage, value and dignity.

Money is nothing more than arrogance on paper.

National pride should not deter Pakistanis from confronting the fact that education has not been their national priority the same way as, say, acquiring nuclear weapons.

Death with honor is better than a life of degradation.

What was glory but something that reduced the more there were of you to share it?

Nor can we as individuals assume that the offer of the gospel will be forever open to us. Even if our lives are spared, yet it is possible to become hardened to the gospel to such a point that there is no return. We become so inured in our pride that we are deaf to the only good news that can save us. God's only word to us is then imminent and comprehensive doom.

This was defeat. This was failure; a quiet, ashen world. True humility and obedience, where the knee is bowed to the inevitable, the ring is kissed without pride or restraint.

esprit de corps

The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

And in those final years, when he was off doing shit on his own, Spike didn't stick to the rules. He started to think he was too smart. Too ingenious. He was definitely feeling himself. He even changed his name. When I met him, he was simply

most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad