pride

The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

so many people who think they know only know what they don't know, as time passes by, they may get to know what they don't know and then they will know

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life.

Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow.

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.

Virtues are formed by prayer.Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy.Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

If we want to live perfectly happy lives...we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy and worry. When we learn to live selflessly, putting others before ourselves, committing to what is noble, right and good; treating others with love and compassion...that's when true happiness is experienced. A genuine focus on selflessness cures all and creates an environment for true growth. It's the secret to every great relationship. We gain...when we give up self. Sacrificing one's selfish characteristics through diligent thought, meditation, prayer and action gives life to true love and abounding joy.~Jason Versey

Prayer can be a tricky thing, because there are passages that say do not doubt and believe you have received whatever you ask for and you will, but then Jesus prayed 'Not my will by thy will be done.'_ Ultimately, we can't tell God what to do._ He will accomplish, in our lives, whatever He wants to accomplish._ God is God and we are not._

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?