God in eternity looked upon me forseeing my faultness, my pride, my sin and said 'I want that man in my family,… — John Piper Copy Share Image
How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
In the upshot there is only one answer for the preacher who wonders whether he is worthy to preach the sermon he… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“I can't - Kestrel, you must understand that I would never claim you. Calling you a prize - my prize - it… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“In summary, people who believe in fixed traits feel an urgency to succeed, and when they do, they may feel more than… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“Thus pride wears the mask of loftiness of spirit, although You alone, O God, are high over all. Ambition seeks honour and… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
One has to give minority groups a kind of reward, an emotional reward, that it is worthwhile assimilating to this particular majority… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh;… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
We come from a proud tradition of people who have insisted that none of us can be truly successful until at least… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life.… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But… — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney,… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States… — Aviva Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Respect and humility go together. Humility is not meekness, but the opposite of arrogance. A wise old Indian man once said, "Empty… — Arun Gandhi Copy Share Image
Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“The proud tower built up through the great age of European civilization was an edifice of grandeur and passion, of riches and… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
I think there's a pride of what a real American can be. I mean, I'm a transplant, but I've got American kids… — Dave Wakeling Copy Share Image
Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is not room for wit at… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need… — Irvin Kershner Copy Share Image
I have a particular dislike of human pride. And if you think that you can engineer outcomes, that's a manifestation of pride.… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly--to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
“No, I'm serious," Frankie insisted, fed up with being silenced. "Why didn't you just make me a normie?" Viktor sighed. "Because that's… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“I detest that fatuity of mind which believes that what is explained is also excused; I hate that vanity which finds it… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
“The conservative ideology sees LGBT rights as an affront to the traditional way of life, for some reason. We are attacked as… — Ian Thomas Malone Copy Share Image
“Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“There is something mystical in the proud man in the sense in which you use the words. You may be right from… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
God refuses only the person who does not admit his own weakness; He sends away only the unhappy proud person. You must… — Raphael Kalinowski Copy Share Image
Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think about never letting anybody get the ball in my zone, about being tough. If the ball is taken away from… — Shannon Higgins-Cirovski Copy Share Image
An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Pride was always pretty last minute with their match-ups. They couldn't make up their minds. They didn't need the matches to sellout… — Dan Henderson Copy Share Image
I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image