Quotes About Pride

Respect for self only can bring you respect from others.

Self respect is the most valuable asset you have never lose it for anyone or anything.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

Only Napoleon did more than me. But I'm taller than him.

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

I am proud because I have God on my side. He helps me through my weak days an times. I am glad of that an also thankful he is always here for me.

A man who needs women to prove his worth is a man who'll never be worthy. A Gentleman finds his worth in himself and his pride in a women.

A mans spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedomwhich is bordered on all sides by isolationis that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at lifes banquet.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

President Donald Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly told a Des Moines audience Tuesday that his former boss can't admit to making a mistake because "his manhood is at issue here." "I don't understand it, although I had to deal with it every day, said Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general who served as Trump's top aide from July 31, 2017, until his Jan. 2, 2019, resignation.

No, por favor. No soporto la vanidad masculina cuando se desata espontáneamente.

Cuando me siento cursi, me desprecio un poquito, y eso es malísimo. Porque nunca es bueno despreciarse, a menos que existan razones fundamentadas, que no es mi caso.

orgullo es para cuando se tienen veinte o treinta años. Salir adelante con mis hijos era una obligación, el único escape para que la sociedad no se encarara conmigo y me dedicara la mirada inexorable que se reserva a los padres desalmados. No cabía otra solución y salí adelante. Pero todo fue siempre demasiado obligatorio como para que pudiera sentirme feliz.

Pride is a by-product of insecurity. And the more insecure a person is, the more monuments they need to build. There is a fine line between 'Thy kingdom come' and 'my kingdom come.' If you cross the line, your relationship with God is self-serving. You aren't serving God. You are using God. You aren't building altars to God. You are building monuments to yourself.

Whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

whatever you don't turn into praise turns into pride.

Humility honors God, and God honors humility.

There's no point in sticking your pecker down a gun barrel to pee on the bullet, just to prove you have balls. That's a one-time deal and they don't give medals to peckerless pilots.

The secret impetus behind legalism is its competitiveness. The point is not just to win: it's to beat everyone else.

Lest anyone think that any action, however required or useful, could be a source of pride, Sibbes preached that "it is a sottish conceit to think that we can fit ourselves for grace, as if a child in the womb could forward its natural birth. If God hath made us men, let us not make ourselves gods."107