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.