It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave...

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986

I always apologized for my home to protect myself so people wouldn’t think I was a slob, or at least so they would know that I acknowledge I can be a slob and that I’m...

Confession is not all about telling your bad deeds to the public, but being proud of the bad things you have done so far.

Do not be afraid to color outside the lines. Take risks and do not be afraid to fail. Know that when the world knocks you down, the best revenge is to get up and continue...

The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry.

Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose....

They don’t know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It’s only their pride that can be truly hurt.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

The toughest thing worth losing is Pride.

Listen to me. Forget all you saw. Leave it. Take your mind from it. It has nothing to do with you. But use it for experience. Now you know what hurt it brings to women...

The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.

Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That’s just my own observation.

These two teams have a lot of pride. Memphis doesn’t back down from anybody, and it has not played its best game yet.

Pride becomes the blanket transgression that conceals the rest of our sins, allowing us to remain blind to them.

You’re seeing yourself as having missed the target already. That’s your fear. That’s hurting you. But then you got yourself seeing all your shots being bulls eyes. That’s your confidence. It’s making you cocky. It’s...

In an earlier age, it might have been possible to believe that goodness would prevail over pride, but not anymore. The proud could be proud with impunity, because there was nobody to contradict him in...

It’s coming down to the end of the season and right now it’s just playing for pride. Our guys still want to get better and have a good showing every night we step on the...

We pride ourselves on having unbiased coverage and that includes our camera angles.

Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over...

Pride must be a summer thing, because it “comes before the fall.

All the world wondered as they witnessed… a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it:...

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I’m sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

Boys were so proud – you always had to let them think they were good at things.

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room “in time” during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her...

I know they take a lot of pride in this game. I don?t think it?s lost any of its luster. They?re a good football team and we know what kind of challenge we?re going to...

The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect...

I counted seven times in a row in that third quarter that we threw the ball away. We pride ourselves on good defense, but it’s hard to play defense when you keep turning the ball...

A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.

The enemy stays in the hearts of friends. Watch what your friends know about you and watch what you tell your friends, remember, egoism breeds jealousy and ends a relationship in discord.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

Ingratitude produces pride while gratitude produces humility.

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with...

It’s hard to imagine a more biblical definition of devil worship than an exaltation of the self, an exaltation of the ego, and a tearing down of that countercultural sign of the cross,” Moore argued....

O you youths, Western youths,So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,Pioneers! O pioneers!

Pride can be friend, ego can be foe…depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

Cecelia, as with every look and gesture she let us know, was entirely at ease only in the company of her equals – a company that included, besides herself, only her sister. And of course...

What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself.

Every citizen has to guess the value of the gift which every friend will send him so that he may send one of equal value, whether he can afford it or not.

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride.

Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling -Look...

Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock.

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given...

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you’re wrong and you can’t face it; the other is when you’re right and nobody else can face it.

In the name of “force protection,” the military often rolls up windows, builds walls, and points rifles at the outside world. The best force protection, however, is to be surrounded by friends and allies.