Pride Quotes
Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.
John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel nothing but sorrow and shame at your presence.
Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.
The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.
Chinese immigrant: "Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.
If two people could make each other smile and laugh and forget all the pain and darkness in the world for a moment, why should we feel ashamed of it?
Be on your guard against the Pride that repels advice, resents reproof, and refuses to own a fault.
More faults are created than cured by professional teachers.
Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time.
Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.
It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.
A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center.
It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.
How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.
If a person starts neglecting the blessings of God and takes all God has given him as his own, then pride is inevitable
Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.
Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.
And this man, who had sailed round Europe and navigated the Great Northern Route, leaned happily over half a ladleful of thin oatmeal kasha, cooked entirely without fat - just oats and water.
It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.
The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.
if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it.
The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?
When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time.
I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me
It's interesting how pain can change a person, eh? How it makes a man abandon his pride and forsake himself.
Let us thank God for valour in abstractionFor those who go their own way, will not kissThe arse of law and order nor compoundFor physical comfort at the price of pride
I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.
She was a Seeker now, marked for life.She had thought this brand would be an eblem of pride, but now it meant something entirely different. She was damned.
It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder
His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.
In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.
Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.
One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.
Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.
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.
Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.
The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.