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“Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. 'In the end pride is the only evil, the root of all sins.'
'Pride is all I have.”
― Prince of Thorns
'Pride is all I have.”
― Prince of Thorns
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
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“You need to take pride in what God has given you.”
― Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
― Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Oedipus Rex
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Oedipus Rex
“We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.”
― The White Witch
― The White Witch
“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.”
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“It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.”
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
― 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).”
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“I can't - Kestrel, you must understand that I would never claim you. Calling you a prize - my prize - it was only words. But it worked. Cheat won't harm you, I swear that he won't, but you must...hide yourself a little. Help a little. Just tell us how much time we have before the battle. Give him a reason to decide you're not better off dead. Swallow your pride."
"Maybe it's not as easy for me as it is for you."
He wheeled on her. "It's not easy for me," "You know that it's not. What do you think I have had to swallow these past ten years? What do you think I have had to do to survive?"
"Truly," she said, "I haven't the faintest interest. You may tell your sad story to someone else."
He flinched as if slapped. His voice came low: "You can make people feel so small.”
― The Winner's Curse
"Maybe it's not as easy for me as it is for you."
He wheeled on her. "It's not easy for me," "You know that it's not. What do you think I have had to swallow these past ten years? What do you think I have had to do to survive?"
"Truly," she said, "I haven't the faintest interest. You may tell your sad story to someone else."
He flinched as if slapped. His voice came low: "You can make people feel so small.”
― The Winner's Curse
“Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.”
― Salom茅: In Every Inch In Every Mile
― Salom茅: In Every Inch In Every Mile
“Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.”
― Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
― Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change
“Many people think it鈥檚 normal to cheat on their partners. But they are unaware that by doing so, they will never be able to reach the depths of love.”
― The Pink Cadillac
― The Pink Cadillac
“One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.”
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“Feed the soul beauty, and it will heal itself.”
― Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose
― Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose
“Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.”
― All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
― All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts鈥攏ot to hurt others.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. 聽It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.”
― Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
― Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.”
― Isle of the Dead
― Isle of the Dead
“The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.”
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
“What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.”
― This Book Is Full of Spiders
― This Book Is Full of Spiders
“Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.”
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“I said I fell down.
Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once.
I said I don't want to talk about it.”
― Alanna: The First Adventure
Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once.
I said I don't want to talk about it.”
― Alanna: The First Adventure
“From this point forward, you don鈥檛 even know how to quit in life.鈥�
~ Aaron Lauritsen, 鈥�100 Days Drive”
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~ Aaron Lauritsen, 鈥�100 Days Drive”
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“His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?'
'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.'
'You're letting me demean you!'
She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.”
― Kiss an Angel
'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.'
'You're letting me demean you!'
She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.”
― Kiss an Angel
“The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of "truth". It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.”
― From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
― From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
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