Laine had been very proud of herself last night. Nicholas had talked about ghosts and magic and woven a bit of a spell himself. He'd sounded so convincing, so logical, so sad, that she'd found herself wanting to believe him. But testing prods at his argument had made him angry, and long years with Gavin had taught her that angry, defensive people shared the lousy habit of being wrong.
~ Stephen M. Irwin
I heard someone say one time that 'anger after five seconds is just pride.
~ Kevin Breel
If what we want is God’s justice, coming to sort things out, we will do better to get entirely out of the way and let God do his own work, rather than supposing our burst of anger (which will most likely have all sorts of nasty bits to it, such as wounded pride, malice and envy) will somehow help God do what needs to be done.
~ N. T. Wright
Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
I don't care whose son he is. I won't go belly-up like a timid pup. If he's fool enough to take a poke at me, I'll snap the finger clean off that does the poking.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.
~ Stephen L. Carter
We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends.
~ Salman Rushdie
Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Christianity, true Christianity, is experienced when we crucify the anger, pride, vanity and lust that dwells within ourselves and consciously replace it with the sacrificial love, humility, modesty and chasteness of the One who so many profess to believe in and follow. -Jason Neville Versey
~ Jason Neville Versey
Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 -
~ Munindra Misra
Piety /pi•e•ty/ (modern definition)1. When you use Christ’s teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It is the number two reason people leave the faith. The first is pride.
Forgiveness requires a sacrifice of pride. A humbling of the spirit. An increase of selfless love. A time when you allow others' feelings to be more important than your own.
~ Ann H. Gabhart
The less worth of a man,the greater his pride.
~ Yukito Kishiro
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
~ Stephen King
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
~ Blaise Pascal
Man had to hang on to his pride.
~ Robert Ferrigno
A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it.
~ Conn Iggulden
A good wife is Royal in Heart. She is a crown to her husband, and pride to the home where she was raised. She is called a W.I.F.E because she is a Woman In Full Effect.
~ Olaotan Fawehinmi
Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.
~ John Piper
We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, I don't need God! We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good life narrative.
~ James Macdonald
Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.
The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.
~ Criss Jami
Life without caution is like a car without brake.
~ Bamigboye Olurotimi
People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
It's fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda.
Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!
But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that you're not even worth noticing.
~ Bill Maher
The truly terrible thing about the war spirit, about the fear and hate hysteria it generates, is that it forces us to think and talk and feel in terms of abstractions—those communists this time, those fascists last time. But those we are fighting and killing are people—men, women and children—not political, geographic or economic abstractions. They are, in the main, as decent and fearful and confused as we are. And they regard us as abstractions as much as we do them.
~ Sydney J. Harris
If a man like that is killed, there is always another to take his place. That is not the important thing. But to act so that no man dares to strike you because he knows you speak the truth, to act so that you can no longer be arrested because you are asking for the right to live, to act so that all of this will end, both here and elsewhere; that is what should be in your thoughts. That is what you must explain to others, so that you will never again be forced to bow down before anyone, but also so that no one shall be forced to bow down before you. It was to tell you this that I asked you to come, because hatred must not dwell with you.
~ Ousmane Sembène
The only crime is pride.
~ Sophocles
Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.
~ Marcus Aurelius
the more the tree goes up in the air, the more it goes down into the earth. Remember humility in greatness.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
MacCaulay clutches his coat tightly and makes towards the elaborate iron gates of the park. He hurries past Apsley House: one time residence of the ‘hero of a hundred fights’ – the Duke of Wellington. His monument to his own great deeds stands yet in front of the drawing room windows. If he had, in modesty, forgotten his own greatness, he might have looked upon it, and been reminded.
~ Emmanuelle De Maupassant
Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.
Don’t cap your potential in the name of humility. First, maximize your potential, serve the world with your greatness and then worry about pride :-) lol
~ Assegid Habtewold
Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.
The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
~ David Halberstam
Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.
To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
