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...

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that...

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.

I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

Druids were supposed to be forces of preservation, not destruction, and I could not dance around the fact that my stupid pride had turned me into a misbegotten cockwaffle.

For us, our team is a team that has a lot of pride and I don’t think we’ve really been known as divers. To get in a war of words with him, to me is...

Pride is nothing more than us highlighting us.

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One’s life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.

Maybe Grodzenski was showing me, with his quiet pride, the reason he hummed a little while he worked.

Love hath no pride.

Your theology won’t always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If your heart is not submitting to the plan of God, you will actually...

Your arrogance doesn’t cheapen me.

The truly terrible thing about the war spirit, about the fear and hate hysteria it generates, is that it forces us to think and talk and feel in terms of abstractions—those “communists” this time, those...

It was easier to be the headstrong monk, a boy on a long-shot mission, before he actually won anything. With the prize in hand, he realized his single-minded drive came across as aloof cockiness; his...

Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines against service but screams against hidden service. It strains and...

Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?

Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.

Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something...

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.

He who believes not in your quest should not sail with you, so that he won’t sink your ship

But struggling with these better feelings was pride,–the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of...

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness.

What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men...

When you’re appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone’s need for your approval.

Thank God I’m not blind anymore!

If you plant your crops in the weather of pride they will grow tall and fall down. Take away pride and your dreams will stand.

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

A hedge knight must hold tight to his pride. Without it, he was no more than a sellsword

I have my pride. I’m a director. I’m not going to go and recreate some other director’s vision.

Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.

I will find you another long-forgotten Queen Mab poem in no time. Depend on it. I refuse to let Cody or anyone else know more about English Literature than me. So calm yourself, Elfish, and...

I do not wish to travel around the world. I already have the world trying to travel around me.

Let us thank God for valour in abstractionFor those who go their own way, will not kissThe arse of law and order nor compoundFor physical comfort at the price of pride

Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 –

You’ll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining...