Pride Quotes
Pride is often used as a way to protect our hearts and to hide the truth. Pride causes us to shut down and build walls.
God didn't send His only Son to die on the cross so that we can hide behind our guilt, shame, and pride.
We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear, " he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.
Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard.
Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men.
Never embarrass a student in front of others. Embarrass yourself often to relieve the tension, but do not paint them into a corner.
To feel the joy of life, sell your pride and get lost in the simplicity and humility.
For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.
Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue.
Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.
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 think their own ideas are the best.
Pride can be friend, ego can be foe...depending on which one we choose, or not, to conquer.
No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.
Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could take no pride, which could not in any way determine my affection.
You were scared they were going to laugh at you, right? So let them! People who discourage others will never find their own happiness!
I'm above crawling on my knees for certain favors. What you cannot give me: I cannot beg for it. This is not arrogance or pride. This is having a clear understanding of my self worth.
Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.
Perfection isn't necessarily found only in publicly accepted trends. Perfection is found in self.
All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.
It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUntil it has been on his back
I don't mind people talking about me behind my back. It means they know me, and I'm out in front.
Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.
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.
I do not wish to travel around the world. I already have the world trying to travel around me.
It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful.
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls.
Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me...
Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, wearing her weathered poetry with pride.
Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.
It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.
When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.
Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.
Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful...
The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope.
The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.
False humility is the pride of not being proud, real humility is without the consciousness that pride exists.
He was an animal. Everyone knows never to corner one that's injured...even if it is just his pride.
