Quotes about Proudness, page 4

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Quote by Khalil Gibran about proudness

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way,...

Quote by Haruki Murakami about proudness

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Quote by George Seferis about proudness

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Quote by Alain Rene Lesage about proudness

Vanity Suddenly the limpid stupor of the immensity towers above the debris And the man bent over the water surprised by the sun discovers a shadow Wafting in pieces and gently floating away

Quote by Giuseppe Ungaretti about proudness

When you are eliminating the vanity, you can exist in literature, because you find other arguments for the fact that you are existing, less vanitous and the things are then back to normal, in a more acceptable order.

Quote by Dinu Flamand about proudness

Patriotism is a feeling of pride that something good could happen in your country.

Quote by Dumitru Ion Suchianu about proudness

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.

Quote by Pablo Neruda about proudness

Youngs are enthusiastic, lovers of the wise man, but sometimes they are intemperate and too proud.

Quote by George Calinescu about proudness

Professional pride is the only one which is creative and can be, morally speaking, justified. Creation and moral RightWords Translation

Quote by Marin Preda about proudness

The vanity is, utimately, opacity, dark inability to admit that on the world there are other human beings apart from your charming person. The hypocrisy of despair

Quote by Teodor Mazilu about proudness

The will can be, more than talent, a reason for pride.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about proudness

Pride is the defense of autonomy against desperate and naughty mediocrity.

Quote by Petre Pandrea about proudness

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Quote by Lauren Bacall about proudness

I wonder what could have changedIn meAnd in my faith, Of which I know I've changed nothing, Not even my apprentice pride, Which I find it todayIn those volumeWhere I've wrote only jokesFearing the old age!

Quote by Ion Minulescu about proudness