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...

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Pride is yet again in the way of our mind’s ability to accept that we may not be the most intelligent and advanced people in the universe or on Earth since it was formed along...

False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.

Today, it felt like time should be measured by how much of the future she had left, and needed to be counted forward. She felt proud listening, as if somehow Jonathan Parish’s speech reflected on...

We take a lot of pride in being productive and helping the team win, … Fortunately, we have been able to stay healthy and duplicate the success we had last year. I think the one...

Vengeance would have us assault an enemy’s pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.

A partner’s different perspective is valuable, but the very fact that it is different means that it will require work, humility, time, and resources to incorporate that perspective. At times, this will require checking one’s...

…women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love …

If you love sex, let it be known. You don’t have to walk around downtown naked or have some flyers printed up, but definitely don’t be shy about your love (or obsession) for sex.

We just didn’t show any pride in the first half. I think it was us not being back in game situations yet (after Christmas break).

Outward beauty is the frame for the masterpiece of your soul.

It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

Love can either be your greatest companion or your worst enemy, depending on your pride to accept or deny things.

In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine’s Latin formulation—takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we seek to...

Ignorance is a flaw and pride is another blemish caused by ignorance.

See” Kayla links her arm through mine, leaving Blake to jostle and race the other guys. “I tell them I can handle my own stuff, but it’s like a mark of pride or something. I’m...

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make...

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato’s dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

I’m not even going to tell you what I think about what just happened in there. But I know it sucked and I have no idea why you aren’t crying right now, but I know...

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything – that is the definition of conviction.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, “I shall win!”–the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men...

I can’t re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? ‘Make way, we are coming! Give us every right and don’t you dare breathe a word before us. Pay us every sort of...

He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration...

You’re not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

Whether through an outwardly prideful life of breaking the rules or an inwardly prideful life of keeping the rules, we are people who have sought to avoid Jesus and run our own lives.

I do have personal pride. That’s the one black mark. I’m not perfect, and it shows I have room to improve. It doesn’t get at me at all. There are no hard feelings.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in...

When you build a fence around yourself, you’ll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

Now then, Mr. Crab,” said the zebra, “here are the people I told you about; and they know more than you do, who live in a pool, and more than I do, who live in...

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique...

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not...

If lies comfort, and truth disturbs – self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.

There are few things so tender as a man’s dignity.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

Patriotism is a thing difficult to put into words. It is neither precisely an emotion nor an opinion, nor a mandate, but a state of mind — a reflection of our own personal sense of...

I have a lot of anguish for the families who have lost a loved one, … I hope they’ll carry a certain amount of pride that their loved ones did not die in vain.

For Pride is spiritual cancer:it eats up the very possibility of love, contentment or even commonsense.

Sometimes I do face failures, but I don’t like failures.

I don’t think any of the firefighters keep this job just for the pay. They take pride in being firefighters.

The old exhortations to nationalist fervor and jingoist pride have begun to lose their appeal. Perhaps because of rising standards of living, children are being treated better worldwide. In only a few decades, sweeping global...

Any semi-final is very important. There is a lot of personal and team pride at stake and it is a route into Europe. We are going into Wales to play a Welsh team, so there...

I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.

If we want to live perfectly happy lives…we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy and worry. When we learn to live selflessly, putting others before ourselves, committing...