2,116 Quotes About Pride

Always give everything 110 percent. It's the extra 10 percent that everyone remembers.

Stand like you deserve to be here

Love doesn't discriminate and nor should the law. Not in this country, not in this world, not in this lifetime.

Ambiades, I realized, was the kind of person who liked to put people in a hierarchy, and he wanted me to understand that I was at the bottom of his. He was supposed to treat me politely in spite of my subservient position, and I was supposed to be grateful.For my part, I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one. I might bow to the superior force of the magus and Pol, but I wasn't going to bow to him. Neither of us moved.

Everyone’s got a little devil inside them, I’ve just learned to control mine that’s why you’ve not seen it yet; I advise you to keep yours under control before it ruins you.

Only wise men can differentiate between what is a matter of pride and what is a principle of dignity.

— А я ось, знаєте, — каже Зінуля, — буває, прокинуся вранці і думаю, чому тобі, Зінка, так пощастило, що ти народилась не де-небудь, а в Росії, найкращій країні. Ви згодні зі мною?[...]— Я-то згоден, — сказав я. Але був один чоловік, який вважав інакше. Він сказав: "Здогадав мене чорт з моїм розумом і талантом народитися в Росії".— І хто був цей дурень?— Пушкін [93].

Dignity and pride are not only two different feelings, but, in some ways, opposites.You can step on your pride to preserve your dignity. You can destroy your dignity because of your pride.

Genealogy was her favorite insanity.