Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the...

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

Author describes that a failed sea captain, “vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

Oh, noble child, everything is severing the mind. As for the mind, it is severing pride. There is nothing whatsoever that is not included in pride. If one simply understands that it is merely the...

Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all...

After all we’d been through, we still couldn’t take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other’s throats.

The thing is… I was a very proud girl. I never wanted to take the chance I might get hurt. Isn’t that funny? I was game for any exciting adventure that came my way, but...

Perfection isn’t necessarily found only in publicly accepted trends. Perfection is found in self.

We have a lot of pride in this program. No one is happy dropping nine or 10 in a row but we have plenty of opportunity to win these next 15 or so games. That’s...

I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a...

Don’t allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.

Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and...

It’s better to find success through God, than finding it on one’s own merits; some who usually find their own success become boastful, where through God it’s with gratitude.

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream of this idealized community demand that it be fulfilled by God, by others, and by themselves. They enter the...

Dear me, one day I’ll make you proud.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren’t expecting anything in return.

To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action of concession on his behalf. That is a...

Put off the fire of pride and save your life from burning with flames of failure. Pride is the reason why many dreams only survive as ashes today. Learn the lesson; hung on to humility!

Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The “self” produces desires that “you” must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It’s difficult, though rewarding!

Jon takes a lot of pride in providing the best water possible and this has really been bothering him.

Its too hard to make a Lion Angry… He really doesn’t care what others do around him… but if you do hurt His PRIDE… He wont let you live another Day

But Dad looked delighted. “My Mia’s singing ‘Waiting for Vengeance’ to my Teddy. What do you think about that?

… there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven’t lived up to their potential. They feel unworthy. They want to hide and disappear, to fade into the background and nurse...

No matter how old I get, I keep running into people who are smarter, nobler, and kinder. I really ought to start listening to them and telling my pride to shut up. I had gods...

I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if he enjoys it, he naturally wants to receive it. And if he wants to receive it, he cannot help but...

Pride. You have it where you can have it.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

She bit me.

carry your wounds with pride, Believe in yourself; amongst greatest of catastrophe’ You grew into the being you are And I think that in itself, is certainly enough.

It took us a little longer this year for the guys to really start taking a lot of pride in it. But they did and they got it accomplished. I bet if you went back...

When you swallow that pride, Eve, take care you don’t choke on it.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of “truth”. It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.

Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don’t you know that? […] Your friends do. They’re like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can’t save them. You can only drown with them.

Beware pride; it would have us seek revenge from those most deserving of our pity.

Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage.

Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold you head up and be proud.

Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your...

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

Those who see women as slaves always treat them like rag