Pride Quotes
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Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
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I kind of muddled through 'Pride & Prejudice,' but with 'Atonement,' I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts - I didn't know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.
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There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.
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You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
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How blinde is pride! what eagles we are stillIn matters that belong to other men,What beetles in our own!
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'
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Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
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If you let pride stop you, you will hate life.
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It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
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All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
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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.
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Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.
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Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.
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Pride went before, ambition follows him.
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It is a humbling thing to human pride to observe that strength of mind does not preserve its possessor from indulging any favourite delusion; but that this very strength gives its own force to the belief.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.
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Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
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I am very patient. I take pride in being patient with my husband, my children, my grandchildren.
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I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.
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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
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Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.
