We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

He did not smile. ‘We are the keepers of the world’s greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?’ “My children are my greatest treasures,’ she said. ‘Stone no matter how old, means nothing to...

Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

Has he written to you?”He writes frequently.”Shew me his letters this instant, I order you’; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature.

Damn tricky cats!

It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to...

Pride is a human nature and it’s good for people to be proud of themselves, achievements, etc. but too much of anything is not healthy. Humble is pride exhibited through humility, so be humble and...

There’s blood pounding through the Duke’s head.Knighthood is glory, he’s thinking, not just grace in the saddle and at swordplay, but courage enough to give your life to defend what you hold dear. A noble...

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

If I weren’t too proud, I’d boast of my exaggerated opinion of myself.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once...

On the Path of the Wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduction more subtle than Spiritual Pride; it strikes, being solar, at the very heart of the Aspirant;...

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into...

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

I’m not offended until you think I’m offended.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

Murph took his shot and dropped the bastard right out of the tree. then he stood. “I’m an American soldier, you son of a bitch.

Strike the rock and the water will flow; don’t wait to brag about why you alone can hit the rock for water to flow; just go and do it because the world is thirsty! Your...

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to… people who mean something special to us.

I will only add, God bless you.

…the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

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.

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians,...

The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to...

Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives’ series isn’t just entertainment for devoted fans like me – it’s an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.

So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important—self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

We will not read of that which hurts our pride or fears or ‘feelings’. We forget, or gloss over, or excuse, an experience which injured the tentacles of our personality. We forget the pscyhiatrist’s definition...

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear,” he said. “Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

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.