Quotes About Pride

The suggestion was put to us that we should become non-resident in the UK for one year so that we could earn some money and replenish the dwindling coffers, and provide some time for our accountants and tax specialists to salvage something from the wreckage. The whole experience cast an enormous cloud over us. We had always prided ourselves on being smart enough not to be caught out like this. We saw ourselves as educated, middle class, in control of everything. We had been utterly wrong.

recognize certain traits that seem to be in every champion: passion, commitment, confidence, pride in performance, high standards of excellence, relentlessness, perseverance, and the ability to perform in adverse circumstances.

I guess you think this is some kind of character-building exercise, too, then??" "Do you REALLY think the last thing I'm gonna do before I die is admit someone else was right??

This was for her path, for her freedom, for her life and family. To make her dead da proud. She was strong. She was royal. She would set her will. She would do this.

Gwladus wanted to throw ale in the proud little face. But the princess would kill her, dead as a suckling pig.

This is a craftsman cabin, built for my great-grandfather by masters, not one of the more usual settler's shacks made from whatever came to hand and which have long since rotted away, and good riddance." His smile was real this time. "You always have been a snob, Torvingen." "I like well-made things.

I was the one who helped, the competent one, armored and invulnerable. Aud rhymes with proud.

I could probably beat you at pool." She tucked a strand of hair behind her golden ear. "No, you couldn't." "I beat you at darts." "We're getting off the subject." "You just hate being beaten." "Call it one of my imperfections.

Rhoedd is prideful. It is easier on a man's pride to truckle to a great king than to a starveling. And so we preen.

Der Wille eines Volkes, seine genetische Zusammensetzung "rein" zu erhalten, kann eine Anmaßung sein, doch es ist keine Dummheit; denn gibt es auch keine reinen Rassen, so gibt es doch gelungene Mischungen.

Until man rouses himself from his current orgy of pride, it is not worth the trouble attempting anything. Only looks not thrown out of focus by pride attain that lucid vision of the world which confirms what we preach.

Humanity is the only totally false god.

Tu viente sabe más que tu cabeza y tanto como tus muslos. Ésa es la fuerte gracia negra de tu cuerpo desnudo. Signo de selva el tuyo, con tus collares rojos, tus brazaletes de oro curvo, y ese caimán oscuro nadando en el Zambeze de tus ojos.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

If you would estimate the extent of a woman's pride in youth, see how much remains even after she has passed the age of pleasing.

La gloire ne peut apporter de joie à qui l'a volée: elle ne fait palpiter que les cœurs dignes d'elle.

It took more than a month to prepare it—the greatest beneficent heist in the history of Christendom. Should I live to be one hundred, and my deeds become immortalized in song, please know that there is nothing in my life of which I'm prouder than the preemptive abduction of those relics. Even though it all went horribly wrong.

show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person

Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.

What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...

Taras Bulba: I brought you into this world and I can take you out. Taras: My son, why? Why? Andrei Bulba: I did what I had to do. Taras: From the day I plunged you in the river to give you life, I loved you as I loved the steppes. You were my pride! I gave you life. It is on me to take it away from you. Taras: Put your faith in your sword and your sword in the Pole.

Nuestra generación lo ve todo claramente, le asombran los errores, le produce risa la insensatez de sus antepasados, sin ver que esos anales están escritos con fuego celestial, que en ellos clama cada letra, que un dedo imperioso le señala por doquier a ella, a la generación actual. Pero nuestra generación se ríe y, dominada por la presunción y el orgullo, comienza una serie de nuevos errores, de los que más tarde también se reirán nuestros descendientes.

Look what shoes I brought you---the empress herself wore them." "No, no, I don't need any shoes..." and she blushed deeply.