He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration...

You’re not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

Whether through an outwardly prideful life of breaking the rules or an inwardly prideful life of keeping the rules, we are people who have sought to avoid Jesus and run our own lives.

I do have personal pride. That’s the one black mark. I’m not perfect, and it shows I have room to improve. It doesn’t get at me at all. There are no hard feelings.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in...

Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don’t need God as much.

Such kindness wasn’t a gift but a goad, scraping against one’s skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.

There’s a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

The Luna-Ganymede Race went down in history, and the magnetic sail went down to the fusion thruster. Terranova should never have taken the bet, but it was a matter of pride – and prive loves...

Life is a harsh, twisted paradox.On one hand, you wish for no pain or suffering or misery on anyone. Yet you hope to see your children grow into individuals of compassionate and kind character. And...

Risk should be taken for a cause not pleasure, life is not worth to ruin but to live with pride.

Ronnie snarled and Brendon roared back.Her eyes narrowed. “You roared at me?””And I’ll do it again if you can’t keep your paws off my Oreos.

Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be called wise. Yet there are many things the knowledge of which...

Humble is pride exhibited through humility.

Silence is a lie that screams at the light.

It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now seeshurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyonecalls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will...

I have a lot of anguish for the families who have lost a loved one, … I hope they’ll carry a certain amount of pride that their loved ones did not die in vain.

For Pride is spiritual cancer:it eats up the very possibility of love, contentment or even commonsense.

Sometimes I do face failures, but I don’t like failures.

I don’t think any of the firefighters keep this job just for the pay. They take pride in being firefighters.

The old exhortations to nationalist fervor and jingoist pride have begun to lose their appeal. Perhaps because of rising standards of living, children are being treated better worldwide. In only a few decades, sweeping global...

Any semi-final is very important. There is a lot of personal and team pride at stake and it is a route into Europe. We are going into Wales to play a Welsh team, so there...

I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.

If we want to live perfectly happy lives…we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy and worry. When we learn to live selflessly, putting others before ourselves, committing...

Maturity is when you’re able to say, ‘It’s not just them. It’s me.

I thought of what pride would look like, a jowly old guy in a smoking jacket. Vanity was a tall, beautiful woman with a face like a mask. Envy was a treasure-hoarding dragon, dainty and...

I’m still the same Chelsea Knot. Bow down, bitches.

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.

The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees.

Be proud of your work week, not your weak work. Monday-Friday you can find me working out. I have the body of a fisherman.

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.

We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, “I don’t need God!” We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good life narrative.

God said to him [Eblis], ‘You have become proud.’ He replied, ‘If I had been with you but a moment my pride would have been justified; I have been with you for centuries.

I love you, Maddie, and I am devoted to making your life full of happiness and accomplishments, nurturing your creativity, encouraging your independence and making sure you always know what a gift you are to...

This is for all of Venezuela, … I’m filled with pride, that a Venezuelan can hold this trophy in his hands.

The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.

It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip off down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know,...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with...

A session of boasting won’t attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

I take great pride in showing that I’m able to step up in key times. My role is to score goals and put up numbers.

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins – is self pity. Self pity is the worst...

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily...

If one takes pride in one’s craft, you won’t let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

Don’t allow the pride, ego and insecurities of others stunt your growth.

There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more you grow.

How quickly self rises to the surface, and the instrument is ready to believe he is something more than an instrument! How sadly easy it is to make of the very service God entrusts us...

Sure, girls from New York, they are tough. And girls from Georgia, they are sweet. But those born and bred feisty Kentucky girls, they are the ones you have to look out for. We have...

It always came down to his freaking pride.