Your destiny lies in your own hands. But remember it was God who deposited it there!

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

The prideful man qualifies himself by what people think of him, always looking for applause. There is another proud man; head bloodied by the world but eyes focused on what is good, never caring about...

Some people would rather die in their pride, than live in their humility.

For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity when looking upon it. Our body was not like the bodies of our...

My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don’t lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.

One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are...

What matters is your convictions.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Learning isn’t acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you’re self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one...

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

Leaders are not worried about the respect and honour they can be given, but the impacts and influence they can give!

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high […]

This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these lunatics to go down into their dark room and die for something that...

Eisenhower on Patton: “Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won’t with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

It is always a pride to die as an American.

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.

We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.’ – Tom Joad (Jr.)

We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings are regarded as sacrosanct as they stand, where God is required to command...

No matter what has happened, you’re not a pig-boy; you’re an Assistant Pig Keeper!

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

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.

Do you want it bad enough to get over being hurt?

The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride–if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

I’m proud of the culture I come from – we’re a small country and a close-knit community.

Stupidity is letting your pride rob you of God’s blessings.

In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of...

I take pride in being one of the tougher guys helping the team pressure and there were so many times when I was watching the games that it just killed me inside. Sometimes I couldn’t...

But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man’s a blacksmith, and one’s a whitesmith, and one’s a goldsmith, and one’s a coppersmith....

Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Our pride keeps us from breaking our pride. Our pride tells us we don’t have pride issues.

Hopefully, when your actions and deeds – and therefore other people – boast for you, you’re made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those...

Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it...

I never got to call myself a door-to-door salesman, because, regrettably, I only ever went to one door. But one day I just might knock on another door, to be able to proudly say that...

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give...

Fear cannot capture us, criticism cannot harm us, and pride cannot make us fall.

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it’s source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

If pride is a sin, then love must be the mother of sin.