When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with...

A session of boasting won’t attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

I take great pride in showing that I’m able to step up in key times. My role is to score goals and put up numbers.

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins – is self pity. Self pity is the worst...

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily...

If one takes pride in one’s craft, you won’t let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

Don’t allow the pride, ego and insecurities of others stunt your growth.

People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it’s those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist’s pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.

The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator – that’s beyond...

,Para que quieres tener una máquina nueva si no la vas a usar?-Precisamente porque es bella y por orgullo. La utilidad no es lo que buscaba al comprarla.

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside...

Simply minding one’s own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

My penis’ name is Pride. Pride is something every woman should be filled with.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

I’m up for the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award this year. I’m tremendously proud, considering Caesar is the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria.

The Elsinore’s bow tilted skyward while her stern fell into a foaming valley. Not a man had gained his feet. Bridge and men swept back toward me and fetched up against the mizzen-shrouds. And then...

Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes...

I do so love hearing people speak passionately on any subject, other than themselves.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people…

Our guys take it very serious and show a lot of pride in this kind of stuff.

In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

a source of pride.

The best thing you can ever have is peace of mind, it is a basking fire to keep a cold heart in warmth, and a fortified confidence to be proud of.

We pride ourselves in our training. We meet regularly and we bring umpires along at a pace that is best for their abilities.

The thing that makes it difficult is that every team in this league has a lot of pride. If you see that a team has beaten you the last three or four games, a sense...

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors...

He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietzsche.)A vain person is always vain about something. He overestimates the importance of some quality or exaggerates the degree to which he possesses it, but...

That’s what Rocky is all about : pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question…so break ‘yo’self’!

I had such a hard time giving all the glory to God when first accepting Him as Lord. Coming out of a theatre background where there were many applauds and accolades, I suffered from what...

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!

The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. “Know yourself.” “Nothing in excess.” and, “Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.

The first in fatal charm of national repentance is the encouragement it gives us to turn from the bitter task of repenting our own sins to the congenial one of bewailing – but, first, of...

I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent...

… a man doesn’t like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn’t know anything.

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to ‘one-upping’ his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no...

We have a veteran group with a lot of pride, and we’re embarrassed with the way we’re playing. I’m determined to fix it. One thing we’ve got to do is stay together.

It’s all about, do you want your job? … If you do, then you’ll get it done. If you take pride in what you do, you’ll get it done. It’s all about being a pro.

Euripides “questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

I am leaving now; but know, Katerina Ivanovna, that you indeed love only him. And the more he insults you, the more you love him. That is your strain. You precisely love him as he...

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.