My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.
~ Criss Jami
Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could take no pride, which could not in any way determine my affection.
~ Marcel Proust
You were scared they were going to laugh at you, right? So let them! People who discourage others will never find their own happiness!
~ Inio Asano
I'm above crawling on my knees for certain favors. What you cannot give me: I cannot beg for it. This is not arrogance or pride. This is having a clear understanding of my self worth.
~ Joseph Ejiro
The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.
Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Perfection isn't necessarily found only in publicly accepted trends. Perfection is found in self.
~ Nike Thaddeus
All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.
~ Paula Heller Garland
Modesty isn’t always a virtue, it can be a hindrance, a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.
There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it, the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.
Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.
~ Peter Tremayne
Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. -Respect yourself by respecting others.
~ Miya Yamanouchi
Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. Therefore when you harass or vilify another person, you not only disrespect them, but you also. -Respect yourself by respecting others.
Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings, or anybody at all, destroy your confidence or affect your growth as a blooming flower. It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.
~ Suzy Kassem
Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.
~ Umair Haque
My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.
Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins.
It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to be tried lest they become too secure, too filled with pride, or even too eager to fall back upon external comforts.
~ Thomas À Kempis
I’m still the same Chelsea Knot. Bow down, bitches.
~ Hannah Harrington
I do not wish to travel around the world. I already have the world trying to travel around me.
~ Lionel Suggs
It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful.
~ Damon Throop
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
~ Anthony Liccione
For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls.
~ Antony John
Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me...
~ Muse
Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, wearing her weathered poetry with pride.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.
~ Joyce Rachelle
Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.
Act as if you don't know me, and i will make it seem as though you don't exist.
...some patients resist the diagnosis of a post-traumatic disorder. They may feel stigmatized by any psychiatric diagnosis or wish to deny their condition out of a sense of pride. Some people feel that acknowledging psychological harm grants a moral victory to the perpetrator, in a way that acknowledging physical harm does not.
~ Judith Lewis Herman
It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.
~ Steven J. Carroll
When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.
~ Stan Grant
Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.
The thing is… I was a very proud girl. I never wanted to take the chance I might get hurt. Isn’t that funny? I was game for any exciting adventure that came my way, but when it came to risking my heart, I was a coward.
~ Nicole Christie
Man has rejected the revelation of the Bible concerning the true and living God of his fathers, and he has substituted gods of his own making. In actuality modern man has decided to dethrone God and enthrone himself in all of his nuclear glory.
~ Billy Graham
Pride comes from looking only at ourselves, meekness comes through looking at God.
There may have been a time when pride was the very center of your life. You had ambitious thoughts of yourself, your powers, desires, and aims; but now that will begin to change . . . you have been born again.
