Top 1200 Wounded Pride Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.

Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you

Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?

All pride is willing pride.

It's hard to play somebody who is wounded.

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

We took pride in representing where we came from, took pride in being from small places, and places all around the world and being able to come together and make ourselves into a team, into a group of guys with one goal and get that done.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.

Many women are so wounded that they can't love another person.

I always pride myself on being an inside and outside player and pride myself on what I can do inside the paint.

Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die--die, sweetly die--into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.

Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.

Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

Marines dying or being seriously wounded is commonplace in combat.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

These words are razors to my wounded heart.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair

For me, I take a lot of pride in that, and we take a lot of pride in that, being able to play baseball.

Love is the weapon for this wounded generation.

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

All great Christians have been wounded souls.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.

The thing that gave me most pride about it was to see the smiles and the pride on my staff's faces, because a restaurant is a team thing, and for the whole team it's very much that touchy-feely thing that I could have helped them achieve such an award.

Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines When the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the Sophist's schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion.

Only the wounded physician heals.

Don't the wounded bird still sing?

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

God I bring each wounded child to Thee.

You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

Only those who do not fight are never wounded.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

I have a thing for working with wounded characters.

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.

Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.