Swallowing My Pride Quotes

#1. I didn't want him to be the one I avoided because he'd hurt me. If I was just his friend, then I would still be blessed. If that meant swallowing my pride and being his shoulder when he got hurt, or being the one he ranted at when he was angry; I was prepared to do it and to do it with dignity.

Jessica Thompson

#2. I won't just be swallowing my pride; I'll be choking on it.

Wendy Higgins

#3. Freedom is an endless meeting.

Ken Wilber

#4. No one should ever go hungry, what with chewing ourselves out, eating crow and swallowing pride.

Chris Brady

#5. I was husband for a week. Changed the baby's diapers. There's somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn't even know i wiped his ass

Keith Richards

#6. I don't really think of my blog as a real blog. It's a lame blog. It's more like my when-the-mood-strikes update, or smoke signal.

Augusten Burroughs

#7. The only reason why mankind has celebrated marriages is that they renew the race; they bring forth new life, within the bounds of a holy vow.

Anthony Esolen

#8. Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences.

Mike Birbiglia

#9. What's wrong? Please, Creed, tell me"-Annika

"Just take me to bed, baby. Please just fuck me and don't ask me any more questions tonight."

~Creed

Sydney Croft

#10. A fear-driven spirituality will always diminish rather than enlarge.

James Hollis

#11. Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.

Henry Beston

#12. The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Tom Osborne

#13. I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.

Mary J. Blige

#14. What is thy body but a swallowing grave,
Seeming to bury that posterity
Which, by the rights of time, thou needs must have
If thou destroy them not in dark obscurity?
If so, the world will hold thee in disdain,
Sith in thy pride so fair a hope is slain.

William Shakespeare

#15. I was self conscious and ill at ease most of the time, my health was at the breaking point, and I was thoroughly miserable.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#16. The world tips away when we look into our children's faces.

Louise Erdrich

#17. Swallowing your pride isn't lethal. It might upset your stomach for a few minutes, but the ultimate result may be the life of your dreams. And that's a result that's worth every rejection you encounter.

Georgette Mosbacher

#18. Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the
initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend
makes them timorous.

Steven Pressfield

#19. Swallowing pride rarely gives you indigestion.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#20. To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job.

Ann Coulter