In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

a source of pride.

The best thing you can ever have is peace of mind, it is a basking fire to keep a cold heart in warmth, and a fortified confidence to be proud of.

We pride ourselves in our training. We meet regularly and we bring umpires along at a pace that is best for their abilities.

The thing that makes it difficult is that every team in this league has a lot of pride. If you see that a team has beaten you the last three or four games, a sense...

Atheism being a proposition as unnatural as monstrous, difficult also and hard to establish in the human understanding, how arrogant soever, there are men enough seen, out of vanity and pride, to be the authors...

He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietzsche.)A vain person is always vain about something. He overestimates the importance of some quality or exaggerates the degree to which he possesses it, but...

That’s what Rocky is all about : pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question…so break ‘yo’self’!

I had such a hard time giving all the glory to God when first accepting Him as Lord. Coming out of a theatre background where there were many applauds and accolades, I suffered from what...

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!

People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it’s those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist’s pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.

The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator – that’s beyond...

,Para que quieres tener una máquina nueva si no la vas a usar?-Precisamente porque es bella y por orgullo. La utilidad no es lo que buscaba al comprarla.

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside...

Simply minding one’s own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

My penis’ name is Pride. Pride is something every woman should be filled with.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

I’m up for the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award this year. I’m tremendously proud, considering Caesar is the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria.

Euripides “questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

I am leaving now; but know, Katerina Ivanovna, that you indeed love only him. And the more he insults you, the more you love him. That is your strain. You precisely love him as he...

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

My rule of thumb for hitchhiking is: stick it up straight and proud and make if visible to all drivers.

If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus’ deep forgiveness through the cross, we will not love others well in the midst of their struggles. If we do not see the beauty and...

Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting.

I’m prouder of him than I’ve ever been of myself – I’m proud of him for standing up to me

[It’s] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat...

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

Observing people taking in the work I had watched Robert create was an emotional experience. It had left our private world. It was what I had always wanted for him, but I felt a slight...

He leaned down to her ear and purred. Damn but she loved when he purred.

He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The truly patient man considers not by whom he is tried, one above him,...

Pride is a very dangerous disease that can turn your talent, asset, and achievements into a handicap.

I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th’ eye, all at once.I said I don’t want to talk about it.

I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave

The Oracle at Delphi contained three maxims emblematic of Greek life. “Know yourself.” “Nothing in excess.” and, “Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.

The first in fatal charm of national repentance is the encouragement it gives us to turn from the bitter task of repenting our own sins to the congenial one of bewailing – but, first, of...

I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent...

… a man doesn’t like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn’t know anything.

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to ‘one-upping’ his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no...