But some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.