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...

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility…Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don’t know.

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

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

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...

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

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist’s is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science...

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.

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener’s innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive”.

—Help these boys build a nation their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder the literatures for words they can speak. And should you encounter an ancient tribe whose customs, however dimly,...

When a man’s pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult.

Pride slays thanksgiving … A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air – our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people...

Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most relevant passages of Scripture may not be those that rebut particular manifestations of sin, but those that remind us to...

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self – a painful and determined dying to me...

It’s something I wear with pride because it’s the first one I ever had. I still wear it. I might wear both my rings now and look like a pimp, a pimp daddy.

Saturated Arrogance…imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me…

Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.

Preserving these historic schools builds pride and a sense of place in communities.

Some of these beginners, too, make little of their faults, and at other times become over-sad when they see themselves fall into them, thinking themselves to have been saints already; and thus they become angry...

Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.

You don’t feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.

Putting your pride first makes the results come in second, at best.

Pride grants you a happily never after.

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I’m not the one being arrested.

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

Although he didn’t care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is...

The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

I just believe that someday I’ll meet a person who’d describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

My heart is desperately wicked” provides no such comforts. It heads off all attempts to shift blame, and cuts down all the pretensions of spiritual pride.

It’s fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the...

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

Don’t be too full of yourself because of how people hail you. When your head is swelling, it means there is more empty space to fill in there!

Never become proud within yourself when you are seen as the one to cause that great effect. Never become timid if you know you can while others dare to prove otherwise! Mind your business and...

They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world’s prince of princes. They may lift you with praise many kilometers above sea level. They may say you are the best...

For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People...

Never embarrass a student in front of others. Embarrass yourself often to relieve the tension, but do not paint them into a corner.

Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned

To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work,...

Prayer can be a tricky thing, because there are passages that say do not doubt and believe you have received whatever you ask for and you will, but then Jesus prayed ‘Not my will by...

We are maintaining our neutral opinion on PPC (No. 2 U.S. poultry producer Pilgrim’s Pride Inc.) following the company’s comments this morning that it no longer expects to meet its previously announced earnings expectations for...

Henry flopped onto his bed, and his steam leaked slowly out. He began telling himself a story in his head. It was about how just and kind and understanding he was. It was about right...

Don’t try to make yourself marketable, you’ll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you’ll be at the top.

Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly...

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of...