#pride

He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The truly patient man considers not by whom he is tried, one above him, or by an equal, or by an inferior, whether by a good and holy man or by a perverse and unworthy, but from every creature. He gratefully accepts all from the hand of God and counts it gain. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#pride #equality

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit. ↗

— Stephen King

#pride #reading #television #thought #writing

The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#good #pride #self-righteousness #sin #experience

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#about #asian #available #been #bring

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates. ↗

— Johnny Rotten

#i #i think #leads #national #nothing

I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#complete #day #enjoyed #evidently #had

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#apologetic #grateful #i #i am #impelled

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#clients #craft #instruments #lawyers #pride

It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel. ↗

— Ben Harper

#eyes #fall #fill #gospel #hands

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#foolish #nothing #obstinately #opinion #pride