Quotes about pride
pride desire pieces
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. Benjamin Franklin
pride fortune increase
As Pride increases, Fortune declines. Benjamin Franklin
pride shame coaches
Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind. Benjamin Franklin
pride dresses curse
Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse Benjamin Franklin
pride want loud
Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy Benjamin Franklin
pride vans poor-richard
If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear. Benjamin Franklin
pride men good-man
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of... Benjamin Franklin
pride add modesty
If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty. Benjamin Franklin
pride night thinking
A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that Ive practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and its something I take pride in being able to do. Avicii
pride self development
Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic. Anton Chekhov
pride people able
I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask. Bob Dylan
pride neighbor fountain
Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride. Billy Bragg
pride unique thinking
I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts. Bode Miller
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I take a lot of pride in being Nigerian Brendon Ayanbadejo
pride proud be-proud
Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of. Arthur Schopenhauer
pride racism teeth
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. Arthur Schopenhauer
pride army gun
[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct. Antonin Scalia
pride men worry
A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status. Bruce Lee
pride haughtiness world
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud! William Shakespeare
pride world doe
One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will. David Brooks
pride simple people
The people who resent me do so because I'm a woman, I'm young, and I'm a Bhutto. Well, the simple answer is, it doesn't matter that I'm a woman, it doesn't matter that I'm young, and it's a matter of pride that I'm a Bhutto. Benazir Bhutto
pride men support
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance. Bear Grylls
pride price-tag mirrors
Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag. Bear Grylls
pride thinking done
Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent. Diego Rivera
pride history age
When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite. Edward Gibbon
pride equality trying
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. Alexis de Tocqueville
pride community lines
Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage. Alexis de Tocqueville
pride self reason
Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love. Baruch Spinoza
pride silence weakness
silence is not weakness and decency is not pride Arthur Machen
pride men facts
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned. Ayn Rand
pride men joy
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I. Ayn Rand
pride want hopeless
I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it. Ayn Rand
pride america ifs
If I added to their pride of America, I am happy. Carl Sandburg