“He wouldn't take a sandwich from me. He'd rather go into the Games starving than take food from my hand." "That's not… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness.… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“They dislike, therefore, to hear of 'contempt' of themselves. So I will appeal to their pride.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Pride, oh pride—a friend from the past, a bodyguard of the present, and an enemy of the future. Books, oh books—a friend… — Mark O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.” — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Pride is great up to the point you begin to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The rule of Satanism is:… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
My biggest pride is that Bollywood called me because of my work in Bengal. — Jeet Gannguli Copy Share Image
A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“More like an anaconda than a fuzzy blanket, pride continues to tighten its death grip, eventually choking out all humility and ending… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People have an idea that it is just the wealthy who are proud. But go down on some of the back streets,… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
“Personal growth commences with an ego death. Self-pride blunts personal growth because the ego resists change. The ego wants to maintain the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Lunatics! Vain creatures! They don't believe in God, they don't believe in Christ! Why, you are so eaten up with pride and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
“It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and… — Damon Throop Copy Share Image
Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect -… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Where there is deceit [kapat], there is a beating and insult is the ‘fruit’ of self-pride [maan]. This is ‘our’ discovery.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess—the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a… — Carol Ryrie Brink Copy Share Image
If I had stayed there, swallowed my pride, been able to save Orlando all over again, which is what they were trying… — Penny Hardaway Copy Share Image
In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all… — Bryant Gumbel Copy Share Image
The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough. — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When you wake up on a derby day it's about the pride of the club that you play for. — Alex Greenwood Copy Share Image
Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image