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...

Being big enough to know when you are small, makes you gigantic. Lack of humility is not necessarily the down fall of great relationships, it is the slippery slide ego and pride take you down...

Its like people care more abput their pride than about what’s correct, about the truth.

America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big teeth that bite and hurt. And we take care of America. We hold America to...

I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.

For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls.

Pride begins when someone starts to assume that s/he is the custodian of all truths and attempts to be right in all circumstances, which is IMPOSSIBLE!

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we’re on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk...

We take great pride, but that was an area we wanted to improve upon this year. Even though we’ve been winning football games, we were not happy with how we were giving up the runs.

Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the...

I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pride but bones?

You have heard that evil is a perversion of the good. The greatest goods can be perverted into the greatest evils. The poor man has not the opportunities for covetousness and self-indulgence which the rich...

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride – where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if there is any universal truth.” It sounds humble. But look carefully at what is happening. It’s like a servant saying: I am not...

Someone who is said to have a big ego is thought to be full of themselves, to lack the ability to listen, to always rush to be at the top of the tree and to...

Some people only go to church for the social life. They like having all the friends in church or getting the praises of men by doing certain things, but they don’t go there to actually...

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.

Act as if you don’t know me, and i will make it seem as though you don’t exist.

He was proud of her, he admired her, and at that moment he was conscious of life as something good and he fell in love with her all over again. This consciousness of love took...

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth…Don’t you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan...

Never believe you’re so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.

back-door legalism”).

I am incapable of mediocrity.

Reason is God’s crowning gift to man, and you are rightTo warn me against losing mine. I cannot say—I hope that I shall never want to say!— that youHave reasoned badly. Yet there are other...

Have some pride, will ya? Begging someone to like you is so pathetic.

Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance.

All right, shadow-priest, you’ve been spying — on what? What state secrets have you learned watching me groom these horses?”Only that they hate you, Daru. Every time your back was turned, they got ready to...

Envy, is Pride’s greatest Fear.

For the word “We” must never be spoken, save by one’s choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man’s soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of...

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

He may have stolen my heart or had he taken my soul? I couldn’t be sure but I refused to let him have my pride too.

This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.

They have no achievements of their own. They’ve made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did...

I have brought peace to this land, and security,” he began.”And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand...

For dinner I had seared sneer with a glaze of distant gaze, and a side of mashed pride covered in grace.

Deception sneaks in through the window of pride.

It ain’t bragging if you’ve done it. There’s nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it’s absolutely essential.[check for wording] Proper...

I have more concern for my nephew’s welfare than for Lannister pride.

He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto …