Quotes About Pride

She gave in to the pride of a society beauty, and she became determined to become the best among the worst, whose circle she was entering

The best photo you keep as your pride will one day be the carrier of RIP when you're gone.

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

He has shamed me, and he'll kill me, but he shan't humble me.

I thought I was hurt in my pride only, forgetting that, when you plunge your hand in freezing water, you feel a bangle of ice round your wrist before the whole hand goes numb.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

You have been going on about pride like it was a bad thing, and I disagree with you. A man's pride is about the only thing he has that's worth having, and is what sets him apart from the pack. We have argued this before, Judge, and I guess I will say this time that a man that doesn't have it is a pretty poor specimen and apt to take to whisky for the lack. For all whisky is, is pride you can pour in your belly.

Kendini çok be?endi?in halde kusurlar?n? bilmedi?in gibi, meziyetlerinin de fark?na varmad?n. Genellikle sert, duygusuz ve bencil göründün. Bu özelliklerinde huysuz bir çocu?a benziyordun.

Beni pek sevmezlerdi. Fakat, cahil olduklar? için, korkuyla.kar???k bir sayg? beslerlerdi bana. Sözlerimi hiç anlamazlard?; fakat gene de ba?lar?n? sallarlard? durmadan. Ben de ayaklar?m? uzat?r, üstünlü?ümün verdi?i gururla rahat ederdim bu evde. Y?llard?r da, rahat etmek istemedi?im için çok seyrek u?ruyordum onlara.

Nereden ba?layaca??m? bilmiyorum: tereddüt-ler içindeyim. Kimse de yard?m etmiyor. Asistan ba??ma di-kildi. Benden iki sat?r fazla bilmenin gururu içinde. OysaGauss'un yan?nda benim gibi o da bir hiç. Fark?nda de?il.

Evet, aletle ö?ünmek, diyor Turgut buna. Bir vidas?n? bile siz yapmad?n?z, bu kadar gururlanmaya ne hakk?n?z var? diye tepiniyor.

Neler okudu?unu sordum. Surat?n? buru?turarak: 'Bir sürü macera roman?,' dedi. Sonra gururlanarak: 'Cyrano de Bergerac'? da okudum,' dedi. Durdu. 'Burnu sizinkine benziyor.' Bu ?akay? bana çok yapt?klar?n? söyledim. Bozuldu. 'Haberim yoktu,' dedi.

Les savants ne les comprennent pas et, la plupart du temps, ils les méprisent, parce qu'ils ont trop d'orgueil… Pour aimer les vers, il suffit d'avoir une âme… une petite âme toute nue, comme une fleur… Les poètes parlent aux âmes des simples, des tristes, des malades… Et c'est en cela qu'ils sont éternels… Sais-tu bien que, lorsqu'on a de la sensibilité, on est toujours un peu poète ?…

You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.

Why do men and women like to advertise themselves so much? Is it not but an instinct derived from the days of slavery?

Oameni nu sunt invatati sa fie virtuosi, ci sa se comporte cum trebuie. Suntem rai pentru ca suntem prea constienti de propriul sine. Nu iertam niciodata pentru ca stim ca si noi gresim. Ne facem probleme de constiinta tocmai pentru ca ne e frica sa spunem adevarul in fata altora; ne refugiem in mandrie pentru ca ne temem sa recunoastem adevarul in fata propriei constiinte. Cum ar putea cineva sa ia lumea in serios, cand lumea in sine este un lucru ridicol?!

Oamenii nu sunt invatati sa fie virtuosi, ci sa se comporte cum trebuie. Suntem rai pentru ca suntem prea constienti de propriul sine. Nu iertam niciodata pentru ca stim ca si noi gresim. Ne facem probleme de constiinta tocmai pentru ca ne e frica sa spunem adevarul in fata altora; ne refugiem in mandrie pentru ca ne temem sa recunoastem adevarul in fata propriei constiinte. Cum ar putea cineva sa ia lumea in serios, cand lumea in sine este un lucru ridicol?!

Asher has learned that people have a powerful need to feel superior to others. It doesn't matter who they are – they have to find someone who's beneath them.

I think we all feel great ambivalence at the sight of our own Horoscope. On the one hand we're proud to see that the sky is imprinted on our individual life, like a postmark with a date stamped on a letter – this makes it distinct, one of a kind. But at the same time it's a form of imprisonment in space, like a tattooed prison number. There's no escaping it. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first, best country ever is, at home.

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

We helped plow the fields, build the dams, write the poems and sing the music of America. Are not all Americans proud, of Doree Miller, of Frederick Douglass, of Paul Robeson, of Joe Louis, of Marian Anderson