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.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride – where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there is any universal truth.” It sounds humble. But look carefully at what is happening. It’s like a servant saying: I am not...

Someone who is said to have a big ego is thought to be full of themselves, to lack the ability to listen, to always rush to be at the top of the tree and to...

Some people only go to church for the social life. They like having all the friends in church or getting the praises of men by doing certain things, but they don’t go there to actually...

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

Act as if you don’t know me, and i will make it seem as though you don’t exist.

He was proud of her, he admired her, and at that moment he was conscious of life as something good and he fell in love with her all over again. This consciousness of love took...

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth…Don’t you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan...

Never believe you’re so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.

back-door legalism”).

I am incapable of mediocrity.

Reason is God’s crowning gift to man, and you are rightTo warn me against losing mine. I cannot say—I hope that I shall never want to say!— that youHave reasoned badly. Yet there are other...

Have some pride, will ya? Begging someone to like you is so pathetic.

Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance.

All right, shadow-priest, you’ve been spying — on what? What state secrets have you learned watching me groom these horses?”Only that they hate you, Daru. Every time your back was turned, they got ready to...

America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big teeth that bite and hurt. And we take care of America. We hold America to...

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls.

Pride begins when someone starts to assume that s/he is the custodian of all truths and attempts to be right in all circumstances, which is IMPOSSIBLE!

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we’re on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk...

We take great pride, but that was an area we wanted to improve upon this year. Even though we’ve been winning football games, we were not happy with how we were giving up the runs.

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the...

I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pride but bones?

You have heard that evil is a perversion of the good. The greatest goods can be perverted into the greatest evils. The poor man has not the opportunities for covetousness and self-indulgence which the rich...

He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto …

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the...

Swallow your pride occasionally, it’s not fattening.

be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive,” thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs’, and walked in the direction of his brother’s lodgings. “And I don’t get on with other people. Pride,...

I had a lot of hatred, but I realized that kind of hate didn’t do much. I had to start fueling myself with pride. We owe the ancestors that. So many of the souls who...

When you’re thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

Whatever you don’t turn into praise turns into pride.

Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.

You have seen what Eblis the accursed has seen, when he said “I am of fire, while Adam is of clay.”Cover up the Eblis-like eye for just a moment; how long will you see just...

If you can cope the pride when winning,then you can confront despair when lose.

Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,That long to give themselves for wage,To shake their wicked sides at youthRestraining reckless middle age?

It is a defeat of the spirit to learn one’s arrogance causes such loss and pain. Pride invites you to soar to heights and the footing, tentative. farther, then, is the fall.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.

Envy, is Pride’s greatest Fear.

For the word “We” must never be spoken, save by one’s choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man’s soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of...