Quotes About Pride

Oh vanity! You are the lever with which Archimedes wanted to raise the earthly globe!

Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.

You have to demand respect in this world, ain't nobody just going to hand it to you. How you carry yourself, what you stand for-- thats how you gain respect. but little one aint nobody's respect worth more than your own

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

I'm crazy. Poor and stupid. This is the reason why poor people stay poor, you know that? They spend all their money on pride.

was still hard for a Korean to become a Japanese citizen, and there were many who considered such a thing shameful—for a Korean to try to become a citizen of its former oppressor.

Yoseb would not allow Sunja to accept any money from Hansu for Noa's schooling.

You have the kindest father in the land," her mother would often remark, and Sunja had been proud of his love for them, the way a child from a rich family might have been proud of her father's numerous bags of rice and piles of gold rings.

When you are entitled, you are the most insufferable person ever. If you are entitled and hardworking, which I am, you are still pretty insufferable, but at least you somewhat earned your entitled behavior.

When you are entitled, you are the most insufferable person ever. If you are entitled and hardworking, which I am, you are still pretty insufferable, but at least you somewhat earned your entitled behavior. For

If you got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it, flaunt it.

I finally felt like a big shot.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding ' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

It was still diving, it was still letting go of mammalian pride and embracing gravity.

el orgullo del que se sabe en posesión del mundo verdadero, del que sabe que precisamente la nada, la muerte y la putrefacción, las ruinas y las heces y la mugre, el sufrimiento y las atrocidades son la verdad, que el mundo es un infierno en el que florece el moho precario del paraíso, ilusorio como la pelusa de un diente de león.

sve za obraz, a obraz ni za Å¡to! Glavu daj, a obraza ne daj!

Pojedinac koji ho?e da se uzdigne iznad svojih bližnjih nalik je na kota? na blatnoj cesti: zakotrljao se, ali i zaprljat ?e se!

Dao sam se zgaziti od glupana jer sam i sam glupan... Da se nisam dao zgaziti, nega da sam pravodobno gazio druge oko sebe, bio bih danas ugledno i poštovano gra?ansko lice!

Nothing makes you feel more beautiful than a sari.

You have crossed a line, but it does not change who you are. Don't forget that. A man may be dressed up in all manner of fancy titles, but he must not let it change him or else ego, pride and ambition will be his undoing. No matter what grand title is bestowed upon you, to thine own self be true. Do you understand?

And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

Tirati su, le ginocchia di un uomo sono preziose, non bisogna piegarle davanti a nessuno!