Pride Quotes
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Knowing God without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. Knowing our own wretchedness without knowing God makes for despair. Knowing Jesus Christ strikes the balance because he shows us both God and our own wretchedness.
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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.
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When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.
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I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.
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With a strength I can be proud of, I live only for myself, and only die for myself. I'll never die for someone, cause I know the pain of who remains alive, this is my pride.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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I've never read 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' although I certainly know what that is. And what I love about that concept is as much as it's a zombie story, it's also 'Pride and Prejudice.'
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We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.
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Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.
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The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.
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It's all about pride now. Do we want to go home and throw it in the bag and say, 'Screw this' and get drunk tonight? Or are we going to try to turn it around and go home with a medal?
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I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride of ancestry to point back to. Our forefathers did not come here as did the Pilgrim fathers, in search of a place where they could enjoy civil and religious liberties.
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There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.
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I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.
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Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?
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'Tis pride that pulls the country down.
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I remember taking great pride in making Brad Pitt laugh. I always had a soft spot for him. He's such a sweet, sweet man.
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Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow.
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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
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In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.
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Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.
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Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.
