pride

A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.

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.

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.

God doesn__ give us pain to make us strong. He gives us strength to look inside ourselves and realize we are not innocent victims. When you learn humility, you are no longer a victim because a humble man is not self-absorbed. He seeks to understand why people are hurting him and takes responsibility for his part in their grief. Humility doesn__ dwell with anger or pride, and neither does God.

Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.

Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

Despite this, his prejudice against helmets remained unchanged. You had your pride, Ganelon had told him once, or you had nothing.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

Don't allow the pride, ego and insecurities of others stunt your growth.

I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it.

It is a defeat of the spirit to learn one's arrogance causes such loss and pain. Pride invites you to soar to heights and the footing, tentative. farther, then, is the fall.

The taller you stand, the more possibilities you see.

The Luna-Ganymede Race went down in history, and the magnetic sail went down to the fusion thruster. Terranova should never have taken the bet, but it was a matter of pride - and prive loves loss above surrender.

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.

The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness.