183 quotes found
“I have learned to have pride in what I do.”
“IF I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against Pride. The more I see of existence, and especially of modern practical and experimental existence, the more I am convinced of the re...”
“if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it.”
“they thought they were heroes when they were only cinders in the eye of humanity too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of irritation they are able to cau...”
“In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.”
“Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.”
“Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against ...”
“In many ways, the steamships of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries had become the secular equivalent of medieval cathedrals. They were the source of endless pride to the communities ...”
“When a man's pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult.”
“I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride t...”
“Murph took his shot and dropped the bastard right out of the tree. then he stood. "I'm an American soldier, you son of a bitch.”
“A splinter of pride got in under my breast-bone and lodged there.”
“There's pride and then there's stupidity.”
“When you swallow that pride, Eve, take care you don't choke on it.”
“Pride is the luxury of the strong".”
“If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.”
“Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of ...”
“In a sermon entitled Gods Providence, C. H. Spurgeon said, Napoleon once heard it said, that man proposes and God disposes. Ah, said Napoleon, but I propose and dispose too. How do you think he pro...”
“When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance wisdom, might and riches they form a powerful inducement toward the ultimate form of pride, namely, atheism. The safest way to st...”
“You could bounce rocks off her pride.”
