Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.
Ezra Taft Benson
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I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.
Ed Koch
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I've taken great pride in not being fragile.
Carli Lloyd
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More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
Dan Gable
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I take full pride in the fact that I'm from Chandigarh.
Yami Gautam
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The flip side of humiliation is pride.
Gary Weiss
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Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.
Ted Strickland
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The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
Harold Warner
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Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
Bear Grylls
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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Gary Ryan Blair
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But the challenge must be faced squarely. I believe we can overcome it through our own efforts. We must do so. They key is our national power. Take courage from our national pride and traditions, no matter how thorny the road to independence may be.
Park Chung-hee
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'I cannot raise my worth too high;Of what vast consequence am I!''Not of the importance you suppose,'Replies a Flea upon his nose;'Be humble, learn thyself to scan;Know, pride was never made for man.'
Flea
Jane's Addiction
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Minister-no-more at yanisvaroufakis.eu, 2015/07/06; cited in: I shall wear the creditors’ loathing with pride, in: theguardian.com, 6 July 2015.
Yanis Varoufakis
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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Edith Sitwell
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In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
Christopher West
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All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard.
David Hume
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Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity.
Albert Bandura
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My book is not a book of dirty stories. There are no shocking revelations. I wasn't looking for any and I didn't find any.
Bob Spitz
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Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.
Ezra Taft Benson
