Quotes About Pride

Self-respect knows no considerations.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon magnetism . Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness: strong, sleek, and invariably surrounded by her pride.

Hay tres cosas majestuosas en su marcha, y una cuarta de elegante caminar: el león, poderoso entre las fieras, que no retrocede ante nada; el gallo, que se yergue orgulloso, y también el macho cabrío, y el rey, cuando tiene el ejército con él.

And self-conceit leads straight to self-deceit.

Hay gente a la que no le importa pasar por mala, pero no soporta que se le ponga en ridículo.

Do not therefore pull yourself up with vain-glory about the trifling advantages of a poor victory.

Se retrouver abandonné est un coup porté à votre orgueil. Faites de votre mieux pour l'oublier et si vous ne réussissez pas, faites au moins semblant.

It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

The Anglo-Irish occupied a strange position in 1920s Ireland, the time in which the book is set. A breed apart, poverty-stricken yet proud, they were struggling to keep their niche in a changing country.

War is the biggest ego trip of all time.

I'm world-famous," Dr. Parks said, "all over Canada.

We could never agree about Boogie and I didn't share Miriam's reverence for professors. In fact, just in case I haven't mentioned it before, the pride of my office wall is my framed high-school graduation certificate, lit from above. Miriam has reproached me for it. "Take it down, darling," she once pleaded. But it still hangs there.

It is also why there is so little tolerance for substantive dis- sent, or fundamental critique, in America. Since our identity is in fact quite brittle, we have to be constantly telling ourselves how fabulous we are.

The nobles were fighting men, the descendants of fighting men. They were proud of their vassalage, a word we have tinged with derogation. But today most of us are, have been, or will be employees; no employee has the right to look down on a vassal.

Whether attained by craft or by chance, great power has a way of defining the person who wields it. Finding themselves venerated by those around them, the supremely powerful almost inevitably begin to worship themselves.

Every country has a legend. But in Uganda, everyone is a legend of their kind

It's hard to be humble when you are as great as I am.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

I am the greatest.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.