It is an illusion to worry about pride without having those things that may predispose someone to fall into the trap of pride...

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUntil it has been on his back

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

Murph took his shot and dropped the bastard right out of the tree. then he stood. "I'm an American soldier, you son of a bitch.

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97

In a way, I was incrediibly proud of her (not that I had any intention of letting it show while I was beating the crap out of her).

I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.