#pride

I don't say it in a cocky way, but I take pride in being one of the best at doing what I do. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#best #cocky #doing #i #i do

Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful... ↗

— Heather Bixler

#grace #grace-of-god #inspirational-religious #pride #beauty

So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm. ↗

— Kevin Garnett

#direction #done #head #i #i think

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. ↗

— Joseph Story

#advisable #ambition #consciousness #dangers #deemed

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful. ↗

— Walter Lang

#human #itself #may #our #pride

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#beauty #believes #centuries #considered #does

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier. ↗

— Susan Lieberman

#building #chaotic #create #easier #living

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#atheist #combating #father #forms #his

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride. ↗

— Nancy Lopez

#breaks #competitor #competitors #drive #find

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are. ↗

— Nancy Lopez

#driven #enormous #excel #good #great