Ego and pride is a two headed twist.

It was amazing the things you could bring yourself to do when you felt insecure, when you were out to protect your heart. You could deny it what it wants most, just for the sake...

One of the things I pride myself on is being resilient,

…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

Although he didn’t care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is...

The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

I just believe that someday I’ll meet a person who’d describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

My heart is desperately wicked” provides no such comforts. It heads off all attempts to shift blame, and cuts down all the pretensions of spiritual pride.

It’s fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the...

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

Don’t be too full of yourself because of how people hail you. When your head is swelling, it means there is more empty space to fill in there!

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener’s innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive”.

—Help these boys build a nation their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder the literatures for words they can speak. And should you encounter an ancient tribe whose customs, however dimly,...

When a man’s pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult.

Pride slays thanksgiving … A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air – our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people...

Most counseling cases today involve good desires that have become overgrown. In these cases most relevant passages of Scripture may not be those that rebut particular manifestations of sin, but those that remind us to...

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self – a painful and determined dying to me...

It’s something I wear with pride because it’s the first one I ever had. I still wear it. I might wear both my rings now and look like a pimp, a pimp daddy.

Saturated Arrogance…imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me…

Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.

Preserving these historic schools builds pride and a sense of place in communities.

Some of these beginners, too, make little of their faults, and at other times become over-sad when they see themselves fall into them, thinking themselves to have been saints already; and thus they become angry...

Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands.

You don’t feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.

Putting your pride first makes the results come in second, at best.

Pride grants you a happily never after.

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I’m not the one being arrested.

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.

I am done with the monster of “We,” the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this...

No matter where you go, there’s always something to deal with; if it’s not greed, it’s lust, or envy, or pride, or something else. You just have to live your life so uncorrupted that it...

Their song reminds me of a child’s neighborhood rallying cry—ee-ock-ee—with a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that is especially endearing. The towhee has the brass and grace to call, simply...

There’s some pride here, … We wanted to get that game. There’s been a lot of talk about not finishing over .500. It’d be nice to play well the rest of the way.

In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own law, I have a right to my self, my hatred and my desires,...

Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out of pride, may claim their own authorities over what constitutes good...

The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as ‘the brilliant one’ but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.

One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Never become proud within yourself when you are seen as the one to cause that great effect. Never become timid if you know you can while others dare to prove otherwise! Mind your business and...

They may hail you like an Angel. They may claim you are the world’s prince of princes. They may lift you with praise many kilometers above sea level. They may say you are the best...

For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People...

Never embarrass a student in front of others. Embarrass yourself often to relieve the tension, but do not paint them into a corner.

Humility and pride will forever battle whenever or wherever love is concerned

To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work,...

Prayer can be a tricky thing, because there are passages that say do not doubt and believe you have received whatever you ask for and you will, but then Jesus prayed ‘Not my will by...

We are maintaining our neutral opinion on PPC (No. 2 U.S. poultry producer Pilgrim’s Pride Inc.) following the company’s comments this morning that it no longer expects to meet its previously announced earnings expectations for...