Quotes About Pride

muchos sistemas acaban convirtiendo la humildad imaginada en una forma de vanidad, de modo que acaban igualmente en vanidad.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

The hokiness, in which the Opry took a great deal of inverted pride, disguised ruthlessly aggressive management and shrewd organization.

Being Irish is very much apart of who I am I take it everywhere with me

You bet I'm a patriot!' I exclaimed. 'It's because I'm a patriot, that I can't bear our country.

If you take the pay, earn it. Always do your very best. Even when no one else is looking, you always are. Don't disappoint yourself.

I've often heard blowhard leaders boast, "My outfit is so good, it could function well without me." Hmm, then why do they need you?

Les psychiatres, c'est très efficace. Moi, avant, je pissais au lit, j'avais honte. Je suis allé voir un psychiatre, je suis guéri. Maintenant, je pisse au lit, mais j'en suis fier. Psychiatrists are very efficient. Before, I used to wet the bed. I went to see a psychiatrist, and was cured. Now, when I wet the bed, I'm proud of it.

Arrogance is blindness.

Clarence Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit.

Moi, je veux montrer mes qualités; mais, je ne suis pas assez hypocrite pour cacher mes vices! Le rire, le mal, l'orgueil, la folie, paraitront, tour à tour, entre la sensibilité et l'amour de la justice, et serviront d'exemple à la stupéfaction humaine; chacun s'y reconnaitra, non pas tel qu'il devrait être, mais tel qu'il est.

However, throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. For my part, I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.

He wanted his enemies proud and strong, so that he could cast them further down in his vengeance.

A man must feel a little bit of fear, even if just to fell pride when he conquers it.

Nothing seduces vanity like the word "help".

pride had allowed her to meet unbowed the news of MacFarlane's death and her renewed subjugation to Carr. Pride had kept her from giving up and yielding to her father's machinations.

The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

All the world wondered as they witnessed ... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

Chang nodded sagely. "My father insisted on it. He said, 'You may be proud of being a scanner. I am sorry you are not a man. Conceal your defects.' So I tried. I wanted to tell the old boy about the up-and-out, and what we did there, but it did not matter. He said, 'Airplanes were good enough for Confucius, and they are for me too.' The old humbug!

The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn")

Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey.