Quotes with pride

  • This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
  • However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
  • Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
  • And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
  • A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
  • Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
  • Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
  • Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
  • At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
  • Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.
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  • Albert Einstein At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
    ― Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Horace A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
    ― Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Ben Shapiro Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
    ― Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
    ― Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Joseph Addison Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
    ― Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Seneca That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
    ― Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Nancy Lopez A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
    ― Nancy Lopez
     
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  • C. S. Lewis A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
    ― C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
    ― Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • John F. Kennedy All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!
    Source: Speech West-Berlin, 26-06-1963
    ― John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Ray Kroc All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
    ― Ray Kroc
    American businessman, founder McDonalds (1902 - 1984)
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  • Robert Frost And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
    ― Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Alexander Pope At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
    ― Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Jeremy Collier Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill living.
    ― Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Joe Paterno Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
    ― Joe Paterno
    American Football coach
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  • Jeremy Collier Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
    ― Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Cass Sunstein Democrats pride themselves on their commitment to science. Citing climate change, they contend that they are the party of truth, while Republicans are 'denialists.' But with respect to genetically modified organisms, many Democrats seem indifferent to science, and to be practicing a denialism of their own - perhaps more so than Republicans.
    ― Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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