Aa Quote by Alcoholics Anonymous

“there are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or…

— Jane Austen

“Both low self-esteem and pride are horrible nuisances to our own future and to everyone around us.”

— Timothy Keller

“It had been easier to present a self in full possession of pride and confidence.”

— Colm Tóibín

“Hence you find a good deal of unselfishness in the world, but very little selflessness.”

— S.M. C

“Perhaps one aspect of arrogance lies in not being willing to accept what life sometimes expects one to accept.”

— Winston Graham

“In reality, there is perhaps not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as our pride.”

— Jeff Wheeler

“You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals.…

— Hanif Kureishi

“But I seemed unable to do anything that pleased anyone and that included me, my own self, though at that time I did not…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Our pride, our ego, our fear of failing too often keeps us from achieving greatness, keeps us stuck in jobs we don’t like, working…

— Anonymous

“What we are made to do we seldom do well, what we do of our own choice we make a success of for very…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“The only legitimate antidote for self-doubt and the shameful weakness it breeds is joyful self-acceptance.”

— Idi Amin

“And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily--open myself to the…

— Eugene H. Peterson