Quotes About Pride

He is smiling proudly, his face flushed, thinking that she is enjoying the sight of her son, her adored only son, in his wedding bed, a beautiful bride, a true princess, beside him. Only I understand that the sight of me, with his shoulder under my cheek, smiling in his bed, is eating her up with jealousy as if a wolf had hold of her belly.

And those people like my grandmother, who are so free with their insults and their slaps, who say that it is a tremendous honor and a fine step up for a ninny like me, might well consider that a fool can be jumped up, but a fool can also be thrown down; and who is going to catch me then?

those who have made their own money don't just care about it because {5} it's useful, as other people do, but because it's something they've made themselves.

Self-love is the source of that ignorant conceit of knowledge which is always doing and never succeeding.

virtuoso, aunque se jacte de ello, le reprenderé por desestimar lo más valioso y sobrestimar lo que tiene menos valor.

And that reputation was a true one, for the defeat which came upon us was our own doing. We were never conquered by others, and to this day we are still unconquered by them; but we were our own conquerors, and received defeat at our own hands.

I would give myself an A+.

I'm an American, our names don't mean shit.

I am Cnaiur urs Skiötha, breaker-of-horses-and-men!, I am Cnaiür urs Skiötha, most violent of all men! I bear your fathers and brothers upon my arms!

Conceit does not sit well with martyrdom.

Stupid men, Conphas had found, tended to be excessively proud of their few brilliant moments.

Few things were as incalculable as men who were at once stupid and thin-skinned.

Children are no longer seen by many people as a blessing from God but as extensions of personal goals and pride. As a result, the family under humanism is in a state of crisis.

Shane: Score, he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. Who's your daddy? - Black Dawn

Is it arrogance if one is truly superior?

I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.

Your personal dignity was always more important to you than mere emotion, wasn't it?

Two walls have dropped from between us: pride and justice. It no longer matters who was right. The Hippocratic oath has no place here - do no harm is the wrong standard for love. Everyone does harm.

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance...the taproot...the killer's ultimate and truest motivation...is the hatred of truth...the hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.

Don't get me wrong. I'm sure you've got a fabulously dark, twisted, and perhaps even deeply sick imagination. I'm not trying to devalue the dementedness of your imagination and do not mean to diminish your pride in it.

Some big guys, they think struttin' the muscle will put your tail between your legs, but all they got is strut, they ain't got the guts to back up the brag

The hatred of truth is a vice [...] From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.