“A high self-esteem can quickly deteriorate into egotism, arrogance, and an over-confidence that can backfire and turn people off.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette) — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
“When pride and image matter more to you than demonstrating love, there is no love only vanity." ~ Jill Thrussell” — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, wearing her weathered poetry with pride.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One of the things I pride myself on is that I don't cuss. It's extremely rare, but when I do it kind… — Dr. Disrespect Copy Share Image
I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It is called saiyam [inner control] when anger-pride-deceit-greed are under control. However those who renounce are not called saiyami [those with inner… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“When humans take up their divinely appointed role, looking after God's world on his behalf, this is not a Promethean attempt to… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man’s a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The United States has taken pride in maintaining the 'safest food supply in the world.' And we can still have it, as… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a… — John Keats Copy Share Image
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Self-confidence, as it is generally understood, implies arrogant presumption; humility implies being impeccable in one’s actions and feelings.” — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
“Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
My game is very consistently boring, which is something that I pride myself on. I will make good plays. I will hit… — Francisco Lindor Copy Share Image
I don't mean to be cocky, but if I'm never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud.… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
“But the thought we try to deny Take a toll upon our lives We struggle on in depths of pride Tangled up… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
“It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of people I'm carrying on my back, but it's a light load because I take a lot of… — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I think no matter what your job title or role in life is, it's important to just take pride in what you… — Sonya Deville Copy Share Image
Everybody has their detractors. Some people say arrogance, or whatever they may say. I only have one thing in mind, and that's… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I don't mind being cast as some kind of a pantomime baddie, but I am very fair in business. I always have… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Baby girl you need to stop it, all that pride and self esteem got you angry bout this girl I'm wit in… — Drake Copy Share Image
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything. — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometime we've got to shut up, swallow our pride and accept that we were wrong,its not giving up, its growing up. — Unknow Copy Share Image
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Yes I am the Ex-Girlfriend and I wear that shit with PRIDE cuz it means I had the BALLS to leave you… — Miranda H Copy Share Image