Browsing Quotes With Tag: pride (49)
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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! -
Intellectual pride is more basic and serious than either social or material pride. We know we can lose our prestige or our possessions. They are external. But when the problem lies in our very thinking and we are unaware of that fact, what then?
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The opinions of our enemies come nearer to the truth about us than do our own opinions.
Speaker: Francois de la RouchefoucaldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes of every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.
Speaker: Elbert HubbardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can’t a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
Speaker: Walter RaleighPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You deserve very little credit for being what you are – and remember, the man who comes to you irritated, bigoted, unreasoning, deserves very little discredit for being what he is.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep below them. Thus they are able to reign over all the mountain streams. So the sage, wishing to be above men, putteth himself below them; wishing to be before them, he putteth himself behind them. Thus, though his place be above men, they do not feel his weight; though his place be before them, they do not count it an injury.
Speaker: Lao TszePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.
Speaker: Francois de la RouchefoucaldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who thinks only of himself is hopelessly uneducated. He is not educated, no matter how instructed he may be.
Speaker: Nicholas Murray ButlerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn from him.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As Dr. Johnson said: “God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of His days.” Why should you and I?
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do.
But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I will speak ill of no man… and speak all the good I know of everybody.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!