Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique...

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not...

If lies comfort, and truth disturbs – self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.

There are few things so tender as a man’s dignity.

Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some kind of feeling. I really take pride in that.

Patriotism is a thing difficult to put into words. It is neither precisely an emotion nor an opinion, nor a mandate, but a state of mind — a reflection of our own personal sense of...

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...

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...

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.

Frankie’s chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids.

Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can’t see when you’re unashamedly looking down on someone.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

Never mistake arrogance for intellect.

If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him.

Arrogance is perhaps the most socially acceptable form of sin in the church today. In this culture of abundance, one of the only ways Satan can keep Christians neutralized is to wrap us up in...

Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there...

When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they form a powerful inducement toward the ultimate form of pride, namely, atheism. The safest way to stay supreme...