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.

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...

Christianity, true Christianity, is experienced when we crucify the anger, pride, vanity and lust that dwells within ourselves and consciously replace it with the sacrificial love, humility, modesty and chasteness of the One who so...

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away

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.

The Elsinore’s bow tilted skyward while her stern fell into a foaming valley. Not a man had gained his feet. Bridge and men swept back toward me and fetched up against the mizzen-shrouds. And then...

Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes...

I do so love hearing people speak passionately on any subject, other than themselves.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people…

Our guys take it very serious and show a lot of pride in this kind of stuff.