Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.

So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

I'm a true professional. I don't play no acting games, and I take pride in my work and being a professional.

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

The greatest misery does not stop Me from uniting Myself to a soul, but where there is pride, I am not there.

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.

How to do half-hour comedy innovatively is something I do pride myself on. We invented it with 'I Love Lucy.'

Four tears in my face and you ain't never heard me cry/ I'm richer than all y'all, I got a bank full of pride

I prefer to cry alone, Pride? No. I just want to avoid trial of people who don't know the reason of my tears.

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground.

Never does any pride enter the heart of a man ex­cept that his in­tel­li­gence de­creases by the same amount.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape.

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you,as life is in every seed, put false pride away and seek the Lord within.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.

Cupcakes - when you want to watch your weight, but still feel the pride that comes with eating an entire cake.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.

It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.

Share This Page