When you look at a city, it’s like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.

Stirred up pride is poison to the soul.

There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn’t seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as “junk DNA,” though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone...

I take pride in it and I do think about it. It’s hard to put in words, but [watching black hockey players when I was growing up] made me feel it was possible. So knowing...

The best part about having children is being able to point at them and proudly proclaim, “Hey, I made those.

There is a lot of pride on the line in a game like this. It has always been our goal at the beginning of the year to win the in-state title. Milwaukee is off to...

Ces six personnes formaient le fond de la voiture, le côté de la société rentée, sereine et forte, des honnêtes gens autorisés qui ont de la Religion et des Principes.

I can only be me not thee, as far as the eyes can see!

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

This is stupid.””Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness and...

Self-consciousness isn’t just A curse. It is part of THE curse.

The poet who sees himself as a hero or a prophet, or a priest of the socio-political forces to which he is loyal, which he believes are the historical necessities of his times, too easily...

You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care....

When you feel nervous, recall your pride.

It is a sad thing to become so blinded and deafened by pride that you are no longer concerned about whether or not God is pleased with your actions.

Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Modesty isn’t always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

Compassion is not something you have; it is something you share.

Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at...

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or...

My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.

I think with that Ohio State defense it was a competition, it was a rush to get the tackle. That was just the mentality up there. So I attempted to get all my tackles solo...

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man’s error and misery.

Fans are what make a performer and I’ve always taken them seriously.

I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,’ said Diana, ‘during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you – he will make...

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

The hated man is the result of his hater’s pride rather than his hater’s conscience.

Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for “pride”, allow it to go as a lone ranger!

The proud wish God would agree with them. They are not interested in changing their opinions to agree with God’s.

they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of irritation they are able to...

Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all

Take pride in your workweek, not your weak work.

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

One of the most difficult defilements of the spirit to deal with is the critical spirit. A critical spirit has its root in pride. Because of the ‘plank’ of pride in our own eye we...

The seeking face that does not alter when presented with peace and reason, must bask in its wearer’s prideful ignorance.

i found god in myself& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely

You need to take pride in what God has given you.

The more you try to impress, the more you become depressed, and the more they get tired of your coercion. It doesn’t make them love you, instead, they’ll see you as a little child, trying...

I’m pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked for the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.

The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder … We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

Don’t be proud-you don’t have anything

She pulled her lips away again. “Wait!”He stopped and stared at her.”I’m relatively positive we’re not supposed to be doing this.””Who says?””The laws of nature and God.””Laws are made to be broken and God just...

We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.

They can talk shit about each other behind the others’ backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as...