Pride Quotes
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Pride takes a lot of breaking.
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While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.
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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
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I am a Jew. Those are four words of pride. My Jewishness is as deep as my genes.
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I pride myself on being able to get the guys lined up on the team, and being a great teammate and also doing my job.
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There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.
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Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions.
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(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)
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I am therefore Italian, completely and with pride. But if I could, I would descend into all languages and let myself be permeated by them all. Even the terrible Google Translate consoles me. We can be much more than what we happen to be.
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Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.
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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn't about money or possessions or even our hopes. It's about our pride. He asks if we'll give up that thing we're so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He's asking us, 'Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?'
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Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.
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Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.
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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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Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'
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False humility is more insulting than open pride!
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...Laura knew the price of motherhood to be pain and responsibility; the reward, love and pride.
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The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.
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The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
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What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth.
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It was a typical point, made in typical style, mixing pride and humility.
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The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me.
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I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
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Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.
