Browsing Quotes With Tag: pride (49)
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Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
Speaker: Sir Thomas Pope BlountPosted: 01 Feb 2017 at 7:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“...so long as good deeds are motivated by selfish or malicious desires they cannot transform and enrich either the giver or the receiver”
Source: Joseph Fielding McConkie, Robert L. Millet, and Brent L. Top, Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of MormonPosted: 09 Jun 2015 at 1:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Free your mind of the idea of deserving, of the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.
Speaker: Ursula K. Le GuinSource: The DispossessedPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.
Speaker: Will RogersPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperiences, and the potentially offensive actions of others.”
Speaker: David A. BednarSource: "And Nothing Shall Offend Them," OCTOBER 2006 Conference ReportPosted: 10 Mar 2014 at 4:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“...it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. TO BE OFFENDED IS A CHOICE WE MAKE; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.”
Speaker: David A. BednarSource: "And Nothing Shall Offend Them," OCTOBER 2006 Conference ReportPosted: 10 Mar 2014 at 4:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Satan need not get everyone to be like Cain or Judas . . . He needs only to get able men . . . to see themselves as sophisticated neutrals.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: Deposition of a Disciple (1976), 88Posted: 03 Jan 2013 at 7:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“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!