Top 1200 Wounded Pride Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.

I pride myself on being someone who stomps, who does not tippy-toe.

I was hit many times in various parts of the body, including my right leg, and thank God I am recovering. I was also severely wounded in my left leg. Iraqi and French doctors will conduct an operation shortly and, God willing, I will recover.

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.

The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.

Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

I pride myself on playing just about every position on the court.

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

"Katniss," Gale says softly. I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wounded animals before he delivers a deathblow. I Instinctively raise my hand to block his words but he catches it and holds on tightly. "Don't," I whisper. But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no District Twelve."

My brother-in-law, Chuck, whom I have known since we were teenagers, is a disabled veteran who was wounded while fighting with the marines in Vietnam. I've been around to observe how the war affected his life and the problems that veterans have, and I knew for a long time that I wanted to write a song about Vietnam.

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

To have had the honor of captaining the team fills me with immense pride.

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.

Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do.

I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.

Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.

It was and is a great honor to hold the WBC title, and I've always done it with pride.

That's what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.

I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes

Piracy was risky business, and injuries were commonplace; a single lost limb or gouged-out eye could end a pirate's career. To encourage pirates not to hesitate in battle - and out of a sense of fairness - many pirate crews compensated wounded crewmen in predetermined amounts.

We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.

To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own resources were so weak you had to resort to magic and miracle cures for healing. To acquire faith was to mobilize the powers of an overly active imagination.

The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

The only thing I can pride myself on is making a really good breakfast.

I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain.

If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

I got no pride on the hole. It's a par-5 and I play it that way. A four is a birdie.

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

I think it's a personal pride to hear everyone talking about me.

I take pride in taking the hard road and prove to people I earned it.