#pride

But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing. ↗

— Webb Simpson

#anything #been #better #continuing #couple

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#mark #pride #rather #than #vanity

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#father #lies #master #pride #sin

I'm going to be fit and slim and beautiful. I'm going on a diet as of today." "Why? You've always said that looks don't matter and women only diet for men and life is obsessed with the superificial." "Yes, I know, but then I thought, hey wouldn't it be fun to be sexy? ↗

— Melissa Nathan

#pride-and-prejudice-adaptation #sexy #women #beauty

That will solve nothing, my lord.” His wife strode into the kitchen, stiff pride shining in her eyes. “I told you to keep her in hand.” Brodick glared at his cousin, wondering just when his life had turned inside out. Druce scowled at the sweet smile Brodrick’s wife cast toward him. He lifted his finger and pointed at her. “She bit me. ↗

— Mary Wine

#humor #pride #life

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#ass #braggart #bragging #humility #humor

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive". ↗

— Hope Mirrlees

#resentment #love

Pride is the mother of arrogance. ↗

— Toba Beta

#pride #arrogance

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope. ↗

— Sophocles

#evil #pride #recklessness #ruin #tyranny

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#empathy #pride #selfishness #empathy