Browsing Quotes With Tag: pride (42)
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“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 24 Apr 2011 at 11:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Satan gave up what he had never experienced because of his pride. Because of pride he will never have the opportunity to experience a physical body and his progress is stopped.
Does pride keep us from experiencing a future of great blessings simply because we can’t comprehend those blessings now?Speaker: GayPosted: 25 Feb 2011 at 10:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Unless we are poor in spirit (humble), we feel like we have to defend ourselves. People only attack another person if they feel threatened. God’s law is an inward thing. It deals with the part of us that wants to attack.
Speaker: Gay paraphrazing Patrick DegnSource: Education WeekPosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“You are clever, O Samana,” said the Illustrious One, “you know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years. But too often does youth think that age knows only the wisdom of days that are gone, and therefore profits not.
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, have at times no connection.
Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men: wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that she has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I’ve been driven to my knees by the overwhelming knowledge that I had to admit that I had nowhere else to go.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire.
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!Speaker: Rudyard KiplingPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I do not like to receive honors. Compliments always bother me because the great work of moving the Gospel forward has in the past, does now, and will in the future depend upon ordinary members.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Some people operate in a spirit of contention – clever with words from much practice, but not focused on correcting their own imperfections. They focus on the imperfections of others. The Spirit of the Lord withdraws from them with their fault-finding and contentions. Unless they change, they rarely endure to the end but fall away in time.
Speaker: Robert D. HalesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You are alone here, but part of your growth and experience is to learn how to find needed assistance.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s been my good fortune all my life to associate with people better than I am, chief of which is my beautiful wife, first ranks of which are there my brethren and include in that these wonderful stake presidents seated behind me, their partners, your bishops and their wives, and all of you. All my life, I’ve walked in exalted company.
…Like the mule who entered the Kentucky Derby, I know I probably shouldn’t be here, but I surely like the company it lets me keep.Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ed said
When man found the mirror
They began to lose their souls.
He point, of course, is that
They began to concern themselves
With their images rather than
Their selves.
Other men’s eyes are mirrors
But the most distorting kind
For, if you look to them, you can only see
Reflections of your reflections,
Your warpings of their warpings.Speaker: Stan HermanSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive (stamped on those lifeless things),
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.Speaker: Percy Bysshe ShelleySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Inevitably, any time we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. Often the best defense is a good offense, and sometimes this manifests itself in cynicism, the defense of the mind, for when we expect nothing we will never be disappointed. So the attack frequently manifests itself in sarcasm, in cutting humor, in sharpness of tongue, in criticalness, and in anything which will keep from exposing the soft, vulnerable tenderness within. Each partner then will tend to wait upon the initiative of the other for love, only again to be disappointed but also to be confirmed as to the rightness of his or her own past accusations.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most of us perhaps have attended a Priesthood class or a Sunday school class wherein we sensed that celestial principles were being discussed in a telestial spirit, a spirit in which abstract knowledge essentially eclipses love.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good percentage of those who left the Church in this dispensation went out confessing the sins of others – and in the name of God, at that.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It takes two to fight, and if one partner does not fight back, soon the other’s angry surliness spends itself. When my wife didn’t punish me, the Lord did in His matchless way, and I ended up apologizing to my wife… For the Lord is not only our advocate with the Father; He is our advocate with all of our Father’s other children, unless we become our own advocate and defender.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!