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Swallow Your Pride Quotes

I think to myself that when you're in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to fight to keep your pride. It's a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find that balance.
- Emily Giffin

When you're in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It's a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.
- Emily Giffin

But why is it so hard to forgive? Mrs. Conners asked.
"Pride," Dad said. "This person has already wronged you in some way, and now you are the one who has to swallow your pride, give something up, in order to forgive him.
- Bree Despain

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/
You will not die, its not poison
-Tombstone Blues
- Bob Dylan

Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too.
- Lorrie Fair

A brick could be used as an option: either swallow the brick, or swallow your pride. Most people would probably rather swallow the brick. If you give me a tall glass of orange juice, I'll swallow two bricks at a time.
- Jarod Kintz

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.
- Jack Weatherford

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.
- Jack Weatherford

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