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.

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

If I weren’t too proud, I’d boast of my exaggerated opinion of myself.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once...

On the Path of the Wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduction more subtle than Spiritual Pride; it strikes, being solar, at the very heart of the Aspirant;...

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into...

Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels...

Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one’s pride in proving oneself right with one’s zeal for finding the truth.

Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.

Fits of anger, vexation,and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset at seeing that it is imperfect.

For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride. That was why Karna waited for me to plead with him though he could have stopped my suffering with a single world. That...

Lunatics! Vain creatures! They don’t believe in God, they don’t believe in Christ! Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you’ll end up by eating one another, that’s what I prophesy.

I’m very proud of my body of work. You should see it naked sometime.

Cherubs fan our foolish fires, filling hearts with mad desires. They prick our pride and haughtiness with quick, angelic naughtiness.

From what I can see, too many kids don’t learn pride in their country anymore.

It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.

I love you, Josie, and I am devoted to making your life full of happiness and accomplishments, ensuring that you thrive to your fullest potential and that while you reach for the sky, you remain...

We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

He did not smile. ‘We are the keepers of the world’s greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?’ “My children are my greatest treasures,’ she said. ‘Stone no matter how old, means nothing to...

Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

Has he written to you?”He writes frequently.”Shew me his letters this instant, I order you’; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.

Damn tricky cats!

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...

Pride is a human nature and it’s good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything is not healthy. Humble is pride exhibited through humility, so be humble and...

There’s blood pounding through the Duke’s head.Knighthood is glory, he’s thinking, not just grace in the saddle and at swordplay, but courage enough to give your life to defend what you hold dear. A noble...

It’s like people care more about their pride than about what’s correct, about the truth.

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians,...

The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to...

Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives’ series isn’t just entertainment for devoted fans like me – it’s an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important—self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

We will not read of that which hurts our pride or fears or ‘feelings’. We forget, or gloss over, or excuse, an experience which injured the tentacles of our personality. We forget the pscyhiatrist’s definition...

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear,” he said. “Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

I’m not offended until you think I’m offended.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

Murph took his shot and dropped the bastard right out of the tree. then he stood. “I’m an American soldier, you son of a bitch.

Strike the rock and the water will flow; don’t wait to brag about why you alone can hit the rock for water to flow; just go and do it because the world is thirsty! Your...

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to… people who mean something special to us.

I will only add, God bless you.

…the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

Stay Humble. Often anger comes from our own ego and pride. We don’t get our own way and so we get angry. But remember, it’s not all about you. 🙂 There are other people on...