When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...]
Ilona AndrewsTag: pride dragon ilona-andrews audrey the-edge fate-s-edge
...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ...
William FaulknerThe heart of the Pharisee is within us all, to redefine God's law so it doesn't apply to me anymore. It applies to my neighbor but not to me.
Ron PearceHumility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.
Andrew Murraywhen the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of
hell.
Tag: humility pride original-sin
Seek out your superiors and learn from them. Do not hide nor shy away from them for the sake of your pride for true pride is perceived, not in perceived skill, but in improvement.
Megan WebsterTag: wisdom inspirational pride superiors
You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.
George R.R. MartinWhat I love about being queer is... Everything. I like that it makes me different, and I like that it makes people uncomfortable sometimes. I like that it makes people ask me lots of questions about things they probably would not normally ask people about their relationships or lifestyles. And most of all I love being queer because i get to have a girlfriend.
Tegan QuinTag: relationships lgbt queer pride lifestyle girlfriend tegan-and-sara tegan-quin sara-quin
But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.
Tahir ShahTag: africa bureaucracy pride bribery
As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.
Criss JamiTag: success energy work accomplishment creativity perseverance quality artist pride excellence hard-work relaxation awesome habit aristotle exhaustion trivial awe-inspiring quality-over-quantity
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