“Do not be complacent about your achievements and not to strive for continual improvement when you get to the top. As soon… — Roy T. Bennett Copy Share Image
Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It's about people coming to an understanding, a realisation that we must bridge the gap, build bridges and make people aware of… — Mandawuy Yunupingu Copy Share Image
“Your people must learn to give up their arrogance. They are not the only ones placed on this earth. Theirs is not… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
“Pride makes a god of self, covetousness makes a god of money, sensuality makes a god of the belly; whatever is esteemed… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
All of us in government service were elected to solve the problems that have plagued our nation. We are here to think… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“I am leaving now; but know, Katerina Ivanovna, that you indeed love only him. And the more he insults you, the more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“My body is a political battlefield. It is a place of war, of death and suffering, of triumph and victory, of damage… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“It is a delightful thing to write, to cease to be oneself, to flow through the whole creation of which one speaks.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Delayed arrogance is common in sociopaths. When you first meet, they’ll seem unusually innocent, humble, childlike, and thoughtful. But as time goes… — Jackson MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
The conservatives have already accepted a large part of the collectivist creed-a creed that has governed policy for so long that many… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Exactly, Kitten.Your pride isn't worth it. It's not worth the pain. It's not worth the torture I, or anyone else could put… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“...imagine that you hold in one hand an oddly shaped stone. You keep this hand closed into a fist, but still you… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I'm saying, really, but I guess it's like having a kid, though I don't have any kids. It's… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comedy can't live within my second-guesses, so I started doing new material. Sometimes I bombed. But you have to be willing to… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic." 11 Teachings to help on the journey to Soul Realization: (1) Practive… — Choa Kok Sui Copy Share Image
“But there is an unbounded pleasure to be had in the possession of a young, newly blossoming soul! It is like a… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what… — David Stern Copy Share Image
“We have only minimal control over the rewards for our work and effort - other people’s validation, recognition, rewards. It’s far better… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation').… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The vanity of the contents” of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests “…since… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Control over anger-pride-deceit-greed is known as saiyam. Saiyam, in turn has two parts; in one, there is presence of anger-pride-deceit-greed but they… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There are some men who, in a spirit of arrogance, think they are superior to women. They do not seem to realize… — Gordon B Hinckley Copy Share Image
Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Whether it has been supporting Corby's new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals,… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image