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 is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can “show off” and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our...

The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, the pride of others. I will be a civilized being, I will love the pride of my adversaries, of my servants, and my lover;...

My friend opened a small box which Lestrade had produced. Inside lay a beautiful silver cigarette case monogrammed with Holmes’s initials, underneath which ran the words, “With the Respects of Scotland Yard, November 1888.”Sherlock Holmes...

Juga jangan jadi kriminil dalam percintaan-yang menaklukan wanita ddengan gemerincing ringgit,kilau harta dan pangkat.Lelaki belakangan ini adalah juga kriminil,sedang perempuan yang tertaklukan hanya pelacur.

Pride would never be her ally.

The heart of the Pharisee is within us all, to redefine God’s law so it doesn’t apply to me anymore. It applies to my neighbor but not to me.

Don’t let your pride write a check your heart can’t pay for.

Their message is conveyed in that hortatory tone and declamatory voice used by politicians when starting a condition contrary to fact. People who aren’t cowed don’t spend a lot of time proclaiming they won’t be...

Life is indeed the greatest teacher of all, and our pride the greatest hurdle.

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

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

I don’t know why people are so shy about expressing openly in front of the world their longing for each other, the most powerful and tender natural attraction, but they pretend to be proud or...

Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor.

God didn’t send His only Son to die on the cross so that we can hide behind our guilt, shame, and pride.

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above,...

Everything you swallow will kill you, some faster than others. Swallow your pride, and you’ll love a long time.

A major element in Lincoln’s greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.

I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

You wear your honor like a suit of armor… You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.

The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion they begin to care more for ambition than for education. It is no longer a world in which the souls of all are...

His (Washington’s) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride.

Unlike humanity, my mind isn’t so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God.

I’ve an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and joys of others only in their relationship to me, as food to sustain my spiritual powers. I am no...

not Christian enough” or just a little theologically lacking?

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it’s going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

A splinter of pride got in under my breast-bone and lodged there.

It’s definitely a pride issue now, … Nobody wants to be on the team that ends that streak.

Pride is the luxury of the strong”.

Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.

In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think...