Quotes of: Pride Keyword

Dickie Eklund: Who used to be the pride of Lowell? Huh? Dickie Eklund: [points at himself] Right here. Who's the pride of Lowell now? Dickie Eklund: [points at Micky] Right there.

The Fighter

To have two eyes can be cause for pride; but to have one eye is better than to have none.

Guinean

A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.

Spanish

—Help these boys build a nation their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder the literatures for words they can speak. And should you encounter an ancient tribe whose customs, however dimly, cast light on their hearts, tell the...

At Swim, Two Boys

At last, somebody in line steps forward. “I can commit,” he says. He’s a tall, lean young man with a rifle slung over his back. “What’s your name?” Chris asks. “Andrew,” he replies. “And I’m in.” Chris nods. A few other guys ste...

State of Chaos

Oh, noble child, everything is severing the mind. As for the mind, it is severing pride. There is nothing whatsoever that is not included in pride. If one simply understands that it is merely the production of pride, then, for example, one is like a ...

Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition

Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This i...

John of Kronstadt

A dwarf will fight for honor, but a man will kill for pride.” Auron thought for a moment. “What’s the difference?” “Honor is how others see you. Pride is how you see yourself.

Dragon Champion

Never wear pride as the jersey of your dreams. You will miss the goal and lose your dreams if you put on pride!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

The Running Man

It was not only that he was a great man, but, oh, there was such fun in being led by him.

The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.

Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues

...pride for men is like love for women. Very strong. The most important thing for men is pride.

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Pride and Prejudice

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

A Treatise of Human Nature

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

John Piper

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity to...

Ezra Taft Benson

We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something that I definitely always remember, when I'm playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement...

Christina Ricci

Seek out your superiors and learn from them. Do not hide nor shy away from them for the sake of your pride for true pride is perceived, not in perceived skill, but in improvement.

Life

Scripture said that "pride goes before fall". Just let pride go alone. Don't go in its company, else fall pursues both of you!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

People who enroll themselves in the schools of pride, eventually graduate with and high degree of fall. Failure employs “prides” scholars. Get rusticated now!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes