False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.
~ Criss Jami
Friends can become enemies, and enemies can become friends. Ego and pride can turn what is good into bad, and kind words can turn what is bad into something good.
~ Suzy Kassem
We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.
~ Anthony Liccione
During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know.
I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.
~ Carla H. Krueger
It always came down to his freaking pride.
~ Cari Quinn
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.
~ Bryce Courtenay
The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
~ Pat Conroy
There is one thing you must always remember about yourself; always be yourself, with courage and humility, no matter what!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
What you call pride, I call courage.
~ Jeff Zentner
You have two choices in life when it comes to truthful observations by others that anger you: You can be ashamed and cover it up by letting your pride take you in the extreme opposite direction, in order to make the point that they are wrong. Or, you can break down the walls of pride by accepting vulnerability as a strength, not a weakness. As you walk through your vulnerability, you will meet humility on the way to courage. From here, courage allows us to let go of shame and rise higher into the person we are meant to be, not the person that needs to be right. This is the road to confidence and self worth.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance.
Do not be afraid to color outside the lines. Take risks and do not be afraid to fail. Know that when the world knocks you down, the best revenge is to get up and continue forging ahead.Do not be afraid to be different or to stand up for what's right. Never quiet your voice to make someone else feel comfortable. No one remembers the person that fits in. It's the one who stands out that people will not be able to forget.
~ Nancy Arroyo Ruffin
I do not believe it possible for one to genuinely love Truth more than people (or vice versa). One might fall into the snare of loving the search more than people, or the pride of having exposed something or someone, but not the truth itself. For if you love Truth you love people; because to love people at all and without illusion, you must also love the truth about them.
I can only be me not thee, as far as the eyes can see!
~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.
Pride grants you a happily never after.
~ Unarine Ramaru
Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.
~ Diego Rivera
Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).
THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR; HE DESERVES NOT TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED. HE IS HUMAN, AND HE HAS BLEMISHES. HERE HE STANDS, VISIBLE. HE SEES YOU ALL, COUNTLESS INVISIBLE OTHERS LIKE HIM. THIS BODY IS ACCEPTABLE — PUBESCENT, AWKWARD, MARRED. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE INVISIBLE. WE ARE ALL GOOD ENOUGH. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH OUR BODIES.
~ Agnostic Zetetic
Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I am a survivor NOT a victim.
~ Patricia Buckley
This was going to be difficult, because he enjoyed women, but all the ones he has known seemed to be sent as secret assassins on a mission to destroy his pride and ability.
~ Daniel J. Rice
This was going to be difficult, because he enjoyed women, but all the ones he has known seemed to have been sent as secret assassins on a mission to destroy his pride and ability.
If you love sex, let it be known. You don’t have to walk around downtown naked or have some flyers printed up, but definitely don’t be shy about your love (or obsession) for sex.
~ Roberto Hogue
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
~ Oscar Wilde
A suburban pastor maintained services appropriate for his respected, professional parish. His father, an excitable traveling evangelist, visited and challenged the congregation to confront pride and sing out loudly with the windows open. The next day, the pastor’s banker mentioned overhearing, and he was sheepish. The buttoned-up banker said, though, that the neighborhood had been WAITING TO HEAR the church live out the joy they claimed.
~ David Wilkerson
Disappointment, fear, grief, unlove, dullness and guilt are the worst feelings. Learn from them so that you move on. Then replace them with more satisfying and promising joy, love gratitude, pride, confidence, direction.
~ Diana Jaber
To feel pure joy, sell your pride and be loving and kind.
~ Debasish Mridha
Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.
Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.
though excessive pride may seek for freedom, it may only see freedom in chains
to understand the real reasons to uphold humility, know your real roots, remember death and study the masses
One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
Sell your materials but save your morals.
~ Amit Kalantri
You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.
A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
~ Achy Obejas
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues — faith and hope.
~ Charles Dickens
If you are embarrassed about your sex, it must mean that you feel there is something demeaning or disgusting about being female. You are all wondrously made, girls. Remember that: wondrously made, and you should carry your sex proudly, a badge of honor.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
