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...

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...

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...

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

Our people once were warriors. But unlike you, Jake, they were people with mana, pride; people with spirit. If my spirit can survive living with you for eighteen years, then I can survive anything.

THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR; HE DESERVES NOT TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED. HE IS HUMAN, AND HE HAS BLEMISHES....

Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden’s weightUntil it has been on his back

Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our...

The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

In many ways, the steamships of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries had become the secular equivalent of medieval cathedrals. They were the source of endless pride to the communities and nations that built them, and...

He’s a stud. He takes great pride in all things involved with the tournament. He cares about making it right.

We’re a defensive team. We take pride in that. And we just couldn’t stop them. …I’ve never had that feeling, where you just couldn’t stop somebody.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had...

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego...

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.

Without discursive thought it is just dharma practice. Hope together with aim obscures. One does not cut through pride by meditatively cultivating the desire for happiness. If there is hope, even the hope for buddhas,...

not Christian enough” or just a little theologically lacking?

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it’s going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

A splinter of pride got in under my breast-bone and lodged there.

It’s definitely a pride issue now, … Nobody wants to be on the team that ends that streak.

Pride is the luxury of the strong”.

Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.

In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think...

The only crime is pride.

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.

Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I was never confronted by any impulse to express things and to make others understand something that...

Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is still at the bottom.

I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I...

Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep...

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful.

Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.

It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed;...

As Aristotle said, ‘Excellence is a habit.’ I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He...

It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.

I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late James Watt, who said … that I deserved hanging for bringing into...

The fact that you have access to the microphone doesn’t mean you know everything. There are others listening to you, who know more things than you do, but do not have access to the platform...

What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we’re being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we...