Top 1200 Wounded Pride Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.

Christ's mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.

I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride in ignorance, or somehow use "elite" to mean "person who has taken the time to know" and then are eager to dismiss, say, striving, or the notion that improving one's self out of difficult conditions is a noble thing.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.

A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

It's not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded.

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake

A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded.

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility that can be associated with undoubted courage and unflinching integrity; at the same time there is no room for pride, self-sufficient pride, that rests solely upon its own capabilities, and refuses to look for the support and countenance of others.--MS 7:91 [MS is the Millenial Star]

All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who really matter. Love and hate are the same things, differently sifted through personal... pride, or what have you... personal pride or even just personal-ness.

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

How else could she know that it needed all the strength of my love for her to leave now and give her back to nature - to let her learn to live alone until she might find her pride - her real pride?

¡Lástima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuándo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuándo es dignidad! What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it's 'dignity'!

There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.

we're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal!

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

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

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

I like to think I've provided this faith. I also think that by providing faith, I've focused their pride. I say focused because pride isn't something you give. It doesn't even break out suddenly; it's a feeling that grows very slowly, very confusedly.

You still have your own pride, your own personal pride. You can still work hard and get around the pitch.

When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

It is the Spirit that sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts, and the love of all mankind; thereby purifying their hearts from the love of the world, from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. It is by Him they are delivered from anger and pride, from all vile and inordinate affections.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

Has anyone ever won an argument with you? (Syd) Just Tee, and I was drunk and wounded at the time. (Joe)

It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.

When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.

It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.

A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.

After you've been wounded a few times, it's hard to let somebody get that deep again.

A wounded Qaddafi still in power would be an ongoing threat and menace to the rest of the world.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

When Trump attacks the news media, he's kicking a wounded animal.

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

I have a strong desire to connect. And so when I don't get that, I leave that situation feeling particularly wounded.

'Black' is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I'll say 'black people.' But if I'm talking about a person, I'm going to say 'a Negro,' because I was taught to say that, and I don't see any reason to change it. I don't think that gives pride or anything else. I don't think you get pride by calling yourself this or that.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.

You hurt my feelings." He shoots me a wounded look. "I wasn't aware that you had any.

Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

I suppose I had a soulful quality. I was often cast as a wounded person, the 'sensitive' role.

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across the entire Western world. Black children today are hammered with the idea of racial identity and pride, yet racial pride in whites constitutes a grave evil.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

What is forgiving? Forgiving is giving up all claim on one who had hurt you and letting go of the emotional consequences of the hurt. How can we do that? It's done at the price of beating back our pride. By nature we are selfish. Forgiving, by definition, is unselfish. Being hurt by another person wounds our pride. Pride stands in the way of forgiving. We cannot forgive without God's help. It might be possible for us to forgive something inconsequential without God's help; but in significant matters, we are unlikely to accomplish anything without God's involvement in the process.

Behold Vo Mimbre," Mandorallen proclaimed with pride, "queen of cities. Upon that rock the tide of Angarak crashed and recoiled and crashed again. Upon this field met they their ruin. The soul and pride of Arendia doth reside within that fortress and the power of the Dark One may not prevail against it." "We've been here before, Mendorallen," Mister Wolf said sourly.