Top 1200 Wounded Pride Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

The greatest enemy to love is your pride

Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

Whatever you don't turn into PRAISE turns into PRIDE.

Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.

I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.

I had met many wounded veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center when I was researching my 2009 novel 'The Turnaround,' and I continue to be very interested in how returning servicemen and women deal with their new lives back home and how they're treated by America.

I take pride in being a jack of all trades.

A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.

The bad, angry, upset, wounded people are more interesting, so they're in the news more, but I don't think they're in the majority. I have faith that things will change - I mean, just like everybody else, I don't fix my roof until it's actually leaking, but eventually, we all get round to doing it.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

I pride myself on not being a fake person.

I pride myself on being Japanese American.

I feel as if I'm God's champion, and I have a lot of pride in that.

Pride definitely causes a lack of communication.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis.

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

As if true pride Were not also humble!

And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.

I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

He told me once that there was no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along --trying to wound his faith in order to test it--and I was just another stone in the way of his God.

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.

under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

You need to take pride in what God has given you.

I'm always performing at Gay Pride events.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.

'Tis pride that pulls the country down.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

It's OK to have a little bit of pride in yourself.

It didn't hurt my pride because I am Onew!

There are those among us who have erred, deeply and significantly. Who have wounded the world and broken themselves. The worst of them lose themselves in their errors. The best of them crawl back, one foot at a time, and seek to amend their breaches. That is the way of the brave.

I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.

Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.

To learn flamenco is to swallow your pride.

I pride myself on being tragically uncool.

I don't take much pride in fake fighting.

Love overlooks a person’s faults. That’s not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.

I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

We pride ourselves on all being unique shows.

Being physical is something I pride myself on.

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall

Damned indecision and cursed pride.

Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter.

There's no pride in having been a child soldier.

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!