They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don’t do that. So what we’re doing by this program is strengthening America.

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.

Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for “pride”, allow it to go as a lone ranger!

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s.

they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of irritation they are able to...

Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all

Take pride in your workweek, not your weak work.

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

One of the most difficult defilements of the spirit to deal with is the critical spirit. A critical spirit has its root in pride. Because of the ‘plank’ of pride in our own eye we...

The seeking face that does not alter when presented with peace and reason, must bask in its wearer’s prideful ignorance.

i found god in myself& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely

You need to take pride in what God has given you.

The more you try to impress, the more you become depressed, and the more they get tired of your coercion. It doesn’t make them love you, instead, they’ll see you as a little child, trying...

I’m pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder … We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

Don’t be proud-you don’t have anything

She pulled her lips away again. “Wait!”He stopped and stared at her.”I’m relatively positive we’re not supposed to be doing this.””Who says?””The laws of nature and God.””Laws are made to be broken and God just...

We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.

They can talk shit about each other behind the others’ backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as...

Being big enough to know when you are small, makes you gigantic. Lack of humility is not necessarily the down fall of great relationships, it is the slippery slide ego and pride take you down...

Its like people care more abput their pride than about what’s correct, about the truth.

Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at...

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or...

My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.

I think with that Ohio State defense it was a competition, it was a rush to get the tackle. That was just the mentality up there. So I attempted to get all my tackles solo...

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man’s error and misery.

Fans are what make a performer and I’ve always taken them seriously.

I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,’ said Diana, ‘during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you – he will make...

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

The hated man is the result of his hater’s pride rather than his hater’s conscience.

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...

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.