Quotes About Pride

Humo de hidalguía, la cabeza vana y la bolsa vacía».

There are 562 recognized tribes in the U.S., but only about 200 operate casinos. There are approximately 150 additional tribes seeking recognition, but the Feds have grown suspicious. New tribes face an uphill battle getting recognized. Many critics claim their sudden pride in their heritage is driven solely by the desire to get into the casino business. Most Indians do not share in these riches and many still live in poverty.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

Instead, she insisted on being called Queen Mother for the rest of her life.

Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

I'll tell you what's wrong with dumb-shit patriotism--it's delusional! It signifies nothing but the American need to win

If pride was a sin, thought Dr. Larch, the greatest sin was moral pride. He

And when he was privileged to witness the miracle of Owen Meany, my bitter father could manage no better response than to whine to me about his lost faith—his ridiculously subjective and fragile belief, which he had so easily allowed to be routed by his mean-spirited and self-imposed doubt. What a wimp he was, Pastor Merrill; but how proud I felt of my mother—that she'd had the good sense to shrug him off.

No, sir. But even if they are, I'm inclined to go with them." "For God's sake, man—why?" The foreman peered at Cooper as if he were callow, not very bright. "South Carolina is my home. Those men speak up for it. No one else does, Mr. Main.

Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.

Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds Along the pebbled shore of memory! Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be Upon thy vaporous bosom, magnified To goodly vessels; many a sail of pride, And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry.

Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.

Galbraith's First Law: Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

specialists. In all speculative episodes there is always an element of pride in discovering what is seemingly new and greatly rewarding in the way of financial instrument or investment opportunity. The individual or institution that does so is thought to be wonderfully ahead of the mob.

There isn't much Rainer is proud about any more. In coming to America, he's had to eat a tableful of humble pie, and he's learned it goes down best with a smile.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate

Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.

Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own