The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying but it fascinates me.
I have always maintained a high level of fitness and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness and it's something I pride myself on.
My aim then was to whip the rebels to humble their pride to follow them to their inmost recesses and make them fear and dread us.
If you can once engage people's pride love pity ambition on your side you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
My aim then was to whip the rebels to humble their pride to follow them to their inmost recesses and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
God will never direct us to be prideful arrogant and unforgiving immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
Being a Barrymore didn't help me other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Let's say black the whole black religious experience here is very impressive to me because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
Discipline is based on pride on meticulous attention to details and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure which a just pride ought to discard.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living we may repair to the dead who have nothing of peevishness pride or design in their conversation.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence the other from pride or fear.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.