Don’t cap your potential in the name of humility. First, maximize your potential, serve the world with your greatness and then worry about pride 🙂 lol

Deep rooted envy is the main cause why people put you down, blame, shame, misjudge, maltreat and malign you; abusing your goodness and generosity.” from the book, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:

You can’t let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people’s uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough,...

If I love a dose of (good) theology or philosophy, I probably also love discipline, improvement, wisdom, and challenges. If I hate it, I am probably too comfortable and proud to try to question myself.

qYour pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

…how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?

Love with pride is like chasing the pavement. There’ll be a long chasing until it ends.

Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed;...

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.

Do you have still the dye with which to turn your tunic red?’‘The madder? Yes, I do.’‘Enough of it for a century?’‘Enough for the entire cohort, if you want it.’He twitched a smile then; I...

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

I can’t – Kestrel, you must understand that I would never claim you. Calling you a prize – my prize – it was only words. But it worked. Cheat won’t harm you, I swear that...

I want to show the guys I can be relied on. I’ve got a lot of pride in myself and my game.

The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, “i did it”, without any confidence and prove.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don’t you take it away from yourself.

I’d start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.

Pride in office without competence is as much a sin as competence without confidence.

Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.All men make mistakes, it is only human.But once the wrong is done, a mancan turn his back on folly, misfortune too,if he tries to make...

His fists clenched at his sides. ‘Damn it! Where’s your pride?’ ‘Pride? It’s in my heart, of course.’ ‘You’re letting me demean you!’ She smiled. ‘You can’t do that. I can only demean myself.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

The amazing ones are, those that don’t know it!

We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.

I feel pride in being a Greenlander.

Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it’s something I pride myself in.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were….Our creed is indeed a queer creed. You...

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to...

In all things, may the victory come to us while the glory goes to God. We can’t handle the glory… It only brings pride to us! We can handle the victory… It brings a joyful...

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

I take pride in not throwing interceptions. It’s the thing that I’m committed to improving. Turnovers kill you. There is no excuse for them whether you’re a freshman or senior. I expect to double my...

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose,” began the man. “You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between...

Bientôt la conversation reprit entre les trois dames, que la présence de cette fille avait rendues subitement amies, presque intimes. Elles devaient faire, leur semblait-il, comme un faisceau de leurs dignités d’épouses en face de...

They’re playing very, very well. They’re playing fast. They’re playing very physical. They’re not making many mistakes. They’re taken a lot of pride in being very consistent.

Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him...

One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn’t implement any of it.

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

…it was no longer a matter of whether I would steal or lie or murder; it was a simple, urgent matter of public pride, a matter of how much I had in common with other...

Pride is the mother of arrogance.

Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair,And dream about the great and their pride;They have spoken against you everywhere,But weigh this song with the great and their pride;I made it out of a mouthful of...

He’s not wanting to fight,” she assured the captain.”He is driven by curiosity?” Deudermont asked.”By loyalty,” Catti-brie answered. “And nothing more. Drizzt is bound by friendship to ye and to the crew, and if a...