Quotes about pride
pride self water
'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet. Naveen Jain
pride billiards discouraged
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Mother Teresa
pride winning champion
Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots. Vic Braden
pride looks
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope. Robert Frost
pride pyramids clouds
The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud. Robert Blair
pride vanity ego
Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego. Rick McCallum
pride opportunity years
Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America! Richard Trumka
pride thinking shining
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. Thomas More
pride alternatives unconquerable-will
It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative! Thomas Chatterton
pride gout divinity
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others. Thomas Browne
pride people realizing
People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth. Thomas Sowell
pride rights class
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back. Saul Bellow
pride work-out looks
I do take a lot of pride in my look and I work out - do work out a lot. Rod Stewart
pride two people
Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks but I don't buy two'. It was something I joked about which has come back to bite me on the ----. I'm shrewd about money, I invest well, and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
pride years feelings
Filipino pride. I'm so excited, I'm just sending love to the Philippines. I know they've had a tough year and I just send out my feelings to them. Robert Lopez
pride talking ideas
She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take. Sarah Kane
pride age matter
For me it is a matter of pride that I have been born in the age in the which Tendulkar is playing Sania Mirza
pride needs day-to-day
At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore. Sandra Bernhard
pride men enemy
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. Samuel Johnson
pride men discovery
Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.
pride mind intellectual
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
pride people worry
Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous. Robert Greene
pride laughing people
You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are. Veronica Roth
pride people abnegation
Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.
pride acceptance loss
And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride. Vince Lombardi
pride journey thinking
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom. Rebecca Solnit
pride mules ancestry
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. Robert Green Ingersoll
pride may degrees
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
pride past may
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
pride men haughtiness
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
pride army age
To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.
pride fighting thinking
I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride. Ryan Adams
pride long flesh
Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh. Robert Jordan