PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

If we could see things from a sufficient height above we should all realize that we are in fact proper objects of pity.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.

He may have stolen my heart or had he taken my soul? I couldn’t be sure but I refused to let him have my pride too.

Confession is not all about telling your bad deeds to the public, but being proud of the bad things you have done so far.

God will go to extreme lengths to kill whatever is keeping you. Pride or whatever may be the hold satan has on you. True.

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilde

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue.

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be “purchased” at someone else’s expense.

Be proud of your work week, not your weak work. Monday-Friday you can find me working out. I have the body of a fisherman.

...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.