Overcoming Pride Quotes

#1. His lips trailed the edge of her chin. One shoulder bumped up, and he eased it down, burying his lips in the soft hollow of her neck. She smelled like citrus and his tongue flicked out. Tasted like it too. "Never pay much mind to rules."
"In the mood to break some, are you?

Barbara Lohr

#2. I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.

Dan Pearce

#3. And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn't fight it, didn't work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to go back, then he wanted to relive it. All of it.

Karen Kingsbury

#4. Its what you learn when you know it all that counts

John Wooden

#5. A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#6. It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.

Pamela Anderson

#7. I fall in love with every film while I'm doing it. I fall in love with the directors, I fall in love with the process. I don't think I could do it otherwise.

Nick Frost

#8. Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid.

Richie Norton

#9. Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure.
The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping,
And all my thoughts are innocent and pure.

Anna Akhmatova

#10. I began to realize that I could go wherever and whenever I dreamed.

Chess Desalls

#11. That white birch you caught me kissing is a sister of mine. The only difference is, she's a tree and I'm a girl, but that's no real difference.

L.M. Montgomery

#12. I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

David Byrne

#13. Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.

Richie Norton

#14. Unlike humanity, my mind isn't so frail as to simply climb under gravity and submit to God.

Lionel Suggs

#15. Revelation is purposive. Its end is not simply divine self-display, but the overcoming of human opposition, alienation and pride, and their replacement by knowledge, love and fear of God. In short: revelation is reconciliation.

John B. Webster

#16. You always miss a great player, but I think the players on this team have taken a lot of pride in overcoming obstatcles when we have a player down ? not only the offensive players, but the defensive players. We were very fortunate that we played that well.

Bobby Petrino

#17. You can't ever work too much because there's no such thing as being in too good condition. You can't ever lift too many weights because you can't ever get too strong. You can't ever wrestle too much because you can always do better.

Dan Gable

#18. The friend is a human Eden
But Eden is so easily lost
When you choose, choose wisely
Before you share, count the cost

Genieve Dawkins