The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work… — Carl G. Fisher Copy Share Image
Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
There's obviously some appeal in scenes for me - there's something I respond to. I keep doing those films where I put… — Jason Biggs Copy Share Image
“Arrogance convinced me that by sheer determination, I could conquer helplessness itself. Stubborn and foolish youth, I must admit, for when I… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“A woman of feeling does not easily give way. You may call it pride, or tenacity, call it what you will. In… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To cope with hurt and control my fears, I grew a thick skin. Oh, the many names of power - pride, arrogance,… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
People look at black pride in America and sport's impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time… — Jerry Izenberg Copy Share Image
To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This applies particularly… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I have never been to Jamaica and in footballing terms, I feel English because this is where I grew up and played… — Troy Deeney Copy Share Image
It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Why do women waste their time trying to convince their insecure family members and girlfriends that they are beautiful? Self esteem is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
If I make a decision it is a possession. I take pride in it, I tend to defend it and not listen… — Paul Gleason Copy Share Image
To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the… — David Cross Copy Share Image
We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular… — William James Copy Share Image
Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“Pride leads him to believe he is smarter than others and invincible, thus he’ll make mistakes in his arrogance. Just remember, there… — James Todd Cochrane Copy Share Image
An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
