I just pinch myself, because I think if theres anything I can be proud of, Ive survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

I didn't want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

But for the grace of God, that could be me.

Father, I thank You that I have Your favor. Your favor is opening doors of opportunity. Your favor is bringing success into my life. Your favor is causing people to want to help me.

It takes pride to be anxious — I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies."

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

For men to search their own glory is not glory.

The meek shall inherit the earth.