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“The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.”

Ifs Firsts Self Difficult Pride Keys Anger Management Defeat Lions Mastery Self Control Anger Management Wrestler

Author:Jack Weatherford

“The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”

“So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.”

Important Self Eye Pride Despair Raised Pity Staring Shields Self Pity Damnation

Book:Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition

Source: Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition

“The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.”

“Some loves are like that. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, & your self-respect & independence. After a while you start throwing people out - friends, everyone you know. & it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, & you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of people. I think that's why I'm sick of love. - Karla”

People Thinking Knows Feels Heart Stills Self Enough Happens Pride Sick Independence Self Respect Throwing Shantaram Sinking Lifeboats

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.”

Self Taught Pride Deception Denied Disguise Indulgence Self Deception

Book:The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

“If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.”

Ifs Should Self Care Simple Pride Self Respect Grants About Yourself Who Cares Stairs Simple Things Fixing Respect Yourself If You Care Pride In Yourself

Author:Terry Goodkind

“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.”

Thinking Men Littles Book Self Reading Meditation Students Masters Pride Constitution Twenties Notes Sake Analysis Affected Motto Good Book Disabled Hasty

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.”

Self Loses Virtue Doubt Pride Lays Pens Self-doubt

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.”

Thinking Two Real Self Reason Fighting Fun Bits Pride Hatred Defense Conformity Self Defense Soda Two Bit

Book:The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition

“If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities.”

Ifs World Feels Self Opportunity Challenges Pleasure Achieve Self Esteem Inspire Pride Confidence Achievement Esteem Secure Empowering Realistic Opportunities And Challenges

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon you, but that you may surrender the low self-will and the feeble pride of your sin, and ascend into the sublime patience of heavenly charity.”

May Self Christ Sin Pride Lows Crosses Patience Lays Charity Humble Surrender Command Heavenly Sublime Penance Self Will

Book:Sermons for the new life

Source: Sermons for the new life

“National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.”

Self Country Individual Conditions Pride Self Improvement Improvement Self Respect Patriotism National Pride

Book:Against bosses, against oligarchies: a conversation with Richard Rorty

Source: Against bosses, against oligarchies: a conversation with Richard Rorty

“A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.”

Self Pride Performances Teamwork Team Building Spirals Team Work Team Working

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“The future success of our Nation depends on our children's ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices. To help them reach their full potential and live with integrity and pride, we must teach our children to be kind, responsible, honest, and self-disciplined. These important values are first learned in the family, but all of our citizens have an obligation to support parents in the character education of our children”

“To lack confidence is to have feelings of low self-worth. We are preoccupied with our weaknesses, and we lack faith in the Lord's ability to use those weaknesses for our good. We do not understand our inestimable worth in the eyes of God, nor do we appreciate our divine potential. Ironically, both pride and a lack of self-confidence cause us to focus excessively on ourselves and to deny the power of God in our lives.”

Self Use Feelings Eye Causes Ability Lord Focus Our Lives Humility Divine Pride Lows Weakness Appreciate Deny Self Confidence Self Worth Power Of God Lack Of Self Confidence

Author:Glenn L. Pace

“Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.”

Persons Self Reason Spirit Fall Causes Attitude Pride Majors Importance Believer Esteem Satan Indispensable Outstanding Conceit Good Christian Self-importance

Book:The Spiritual Man

Source: The Spiritual Man

“Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the pride and joy of their parents-should have had a strong and stable sense of self-assurance. But the case is exactly the opposite... Whenever they suddenly get the feeling they have failed to live up to some ideal image or have not measured up to some standard, then they are plagued by anxiety or deep feelings of guilt and shame. What are the reasons for such disturbances in these competent, accomplished people?”

“We decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others... Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself - and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves, too.”

Ifs Want Feels Self Helping Attitude Humility Pride Behavior Decided Regard Humble Esteem Defined About Yourself Be Humble Self Deprecating

Book:How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)

Source: How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)

“Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.”

Looks Self Asks Humility Color Pride Paint Humble Satisfied Ask Me Tone Be Humble Vibrate Pretty Things

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of the citizens of big counties-those, that is, that have the status of being "powers" in the world-far from being self-centered or materialistic as they are commonly credited with being, the ordinary citizen and his elected representative all too often turn out to be romantics, ready and eager to sacrifice programs of health, education and welfare for the power and pride of the nation.”

“Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.”

“The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.”

Self Ignorance Pride Ignorant Despondency

Author:Baruch Spinoza

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