Prideful Living Quotes & Sayings

I'll fix this, okay? I don't want anyone thinking less of you because of me," he said with a troubled expression. — Jamie McGuire

Being others-focused instead of self-focused changes your worldview. Living in a selfless manner and seeking to help others enriches our very existence on a daily basis. Get your hands dirty once in a while by serving in a capacity that is lower than your position or station in life. This keeps you tethered to the real world and grounded to reality, which should make it harder to be prideful and forget where you came from. — Miles Anthony Smith

I travel every single day, but I make it a point to hit the gym. I want to look good for the summer. — Pauly D

Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily. — Victor Davis Hanson

Some thoughts are like old piece of belongings that need to be disposed to move on. — Richmond Akhigbe

It's weird when you're watching yourself in a film - you can't really detach yourself from the experiences you've had that day. You're never watching the film as a proper punter. — James McAvoy

Whether or not Project Gilgamesh succeeds, from a historical perspective it is fascinating to see that most late-modern religions and ideologies have already taken death and the afterlife out of the equation. Until the eighteenth century, religions considered death and its aftermath central to the meaning of life. Beginning in the eighteenth century, religions and ideologies such as liberalism, socialism and feminism lost all interest in the afterlife. — Yuval Noah Harari

Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity. — Erich Fromm

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice ... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out. — Thich Nhat Hanh

You cannot see yourself, can you, Anne? Except in a mirror, and there everything is backwards. — Greg Keyes

If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living. — T.F. Hodge

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later. — Ann Landers

The only time not wasted is wasted time. — Benjamin Franklin

Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life. — N. T. Wright

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife. — Benjamin Franklin

The Bible does not deny that we were various things - addicts, homosexuals, hateful, prideful, pornographic masturbators - but that is what we were (past tense) (1 Cor. 6:9-11; Titus 3:3-5). The emphasis in Scripture is on what we are and what we are called to be. The Christian does not say, Hello, my name is _ and I am an X Y or Z." The Christian says I was dead, but now I am alive. The Christian says I am a struggling sinner, yet I am a saint. The Christians says I am a new creation; I am transformed. — Paul O'Brien