Top 1200 Wounded Pride Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.

I pride myself on the defensive end. That's where I earn my keep.

I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When I reached the psychiatrist, I said, Give me a gun, I'll wipe out the whole German Army in five minutes. He said, You're crazy! I said, Write it down!

Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite?

All players want to play and this is a source of pride and satisfaction.

My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.

I take pride in my craft, and I work extremely hard.

Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

I work really hard and I take great pride in what I do.

When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.

Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.

It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing

I pride myself on being able to make all the throws.

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

You need to be humble, play with pride but also aggression.

Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the brutal civil war, even people who had been badly wounded told me they missed those times. They were missing their more courageous selves.

I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

I have learned to become not an M.D. but a 'C.D.' for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a 'Chosen Dad' who may not like their behavior but loves and reparents them and helps them to heal their lives and find self-worth and self-esteem and save their lives.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.

Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.

My dad took a lot of pride in what he did for a living.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

Take pride in yourself. Be your own person.

In NASCAR, we pride ourselves on being accessible to fans.

I have a knack for getting the ball and it's something I take pride in.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.

Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possesses it.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

I've always pushed myself and taken great pride in what I do.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.

Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.

Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

Pride dies 20 minutes after death.

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

Unwind my riddle.Cruel as hawks the hours fly;Wounded men seldom come home to die;The hard waves see an arm flung high;Scorn hits strong because of a lie;Yet there exists a mystic tie.Unwind my riddle.

Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young. Now, at an age when the wounds begin to heal whether one wants them to or not, Joan Baez rarely leaves the Carmel Valley.

Don't sell your country's pride for a few bucks.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

I learned to assemble a rifle in the dark and was trained as a sniper so that I could hit the center of the target time after time. As it happened, I never did get into actual combat, but that didn't prevent my being severely wounded. I almost lost both my feet as a result of a bombing attack on Jerusalem.

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

The mana of the silver fern comes from all of you and I will wear it with pride.

Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

In 1967, I signed up for the Army where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the Special Forces. That was really was the turning point in my life. I became more disciplined and focused. I went overseas and was in combat, got wounded a couple of times, lost a lot of good friends but matured a great deal.

Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also through envy, envying our glory, our happiness. Why do we envy the happiness and the goods of others? Because we are proud; we should like to be the sole possessors of talents, riches, of the esteem and love of all the world! We hate our equals, because they are our equals; our inferiors, from the fear that they may equal us; our superiors, because they are above us.

No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.

A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.