Pride Quote

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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.”
mili
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“There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:
This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel
the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take
me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel
like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should
be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I
alone will make that decision.
When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will
be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.”
Copyright © 2000 Stacey Charter
Stacey2005 Stacey Charter quotes
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“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell quotes
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“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of
course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's
above you.”
C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)

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“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot
uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the
person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid
anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.”
susy662719 Cesar Chavez quotes (American Activist and Labor Organizer.
1927-1993 Founded the National Farm Workers Association)

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“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804 -14). 1769-1821)

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“No one ever choked to death swallowing his pride”

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“Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.”

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“Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates
excellence from mediocrity.”

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“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often
used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride
relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have
others think of us.”
Jane Austen quotes (British Novelist and Writer, 1775-1817)
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“Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning
takes care of itself.”
Paul Bryant quotes (American football college Coach. 1913-1983)
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“Pride comes before a fall”
Proverb quotes
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“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less
than you need.”
Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist,

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“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
John Ruskin quotes (English Writer and Critic of art, architecture, and
society, 1819-1900)
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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 quotes (Motivational speaker and author)

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“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance,
although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal
satisfaction.”
Margaret Thatcher quotes (British Politician and Prime Minister. b.1925)

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“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real”
Thomas Merton quotes (American and Trappist Monk t Our Lady of
Gethsemani Abbey in Trappist, Kentucky, 1915-1968)

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“A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks
and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad
breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.”
Nancy Lopez quotes

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“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of
all French authors, 1694-1778)
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“You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of
understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find
their own sense of pride”
Charleszetta Waddles quotes (American Nun, 1912-2001)
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“The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the
condemned man who is proud of his large cell”
Simone Weil quotes (French social Philosopher, Mystic and Activist in the

French Resistance during World War II. 1909-1943)

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“Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status
in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior
status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being
highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically
involved in fear of losing his status.”
Lao Tzu quotes (Chinese taoist Philosopher, founder of Taoism, wrote
"Tao Te Ching" (also "The Book of the Way"). 600 BC-531 BC)
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“When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes
wisdom”
Bible quotes
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“Shame is pride's cloak.”
William Blake quotes (English visionary Mystic, Poet, Painter & Engraver. 1757-1827)
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“Pride will have a fall; For pride goeth before and shame cometh after”
Proverb quotes
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“It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief”
Japanese Proverb quotes
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“No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in
his work.”
Hosea Ballou quotes
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“The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The
first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.”
William Hazlitt quotes (British Writer, best known for his humanistic
essays. 1778-1830)
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“Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in
others, and to overlook in himself”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning,
not in acting, lies”
Alexander Pope quotes (English Poet, 1688-1744)
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“Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave
them alone”
Egyptian Proverb quotes
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“Pride will spit in pride's face.”
Thomas Fuller quotes (British Clergyman and Writer, one of the most
prolific authors of the 17th century. 1608-1661)
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“Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and
governments.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher,
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“Pride is the mask we make of our faults”
Hebrew Proverb quotes
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“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.”
Baruch Spinoza quotes (Dutch Philosopher, exponent of the Rationalism, 1632-1677)
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“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and

sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.”
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture,

1844-1900.)
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“Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of
the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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As proud as Lucifer.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. A Country Town)
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVI, v. 18)

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Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
Author: Isaac Bickerstaff
Source: The Hypocrite (act V, sc. 1)

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They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 14)

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Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
Author: George Chapman
Source: Eastward Ho!

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Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
Author: George Chapman
Source: Eastward Ho!

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Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of
sense, or want of thought.
Author: Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon
Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 161)

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Lord of human kind.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Spanish Friar (act II, sc. 1)

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Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. [Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Iphigenia auf Tauris (IV, 4, 120)

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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Traveller (l. 327)

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Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting
meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the
wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
Author: William Knox
Source: Mortality, Lincoln's favorite hymn
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What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing
vice of fools.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 203)
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and
rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men
would be angels, angels would be gods.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 124)

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Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a
day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others' good,

or melt at others' woe.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (l. 4)
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Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?
Author: Nicholas Rowe
Source: The Fair Penitent (act V, sc. 1, l. 37), taken from Massinger's
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"Fatal Dowry"
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. - John Ruskin,
Author: John Ruskin
Source: True and Beautiful--Morals and Religion--Conception of God (p. 426)

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Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party? Doth
it not flow as hugely as the sea Till that the weary very means do ebb?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Jaques at II, vii)
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O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing
nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain
the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline (Belarius at III, iii)

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He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it Cry 'No recovery.'
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at II, iii)

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He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own
trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed,
devours the deed in the praise.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Agamemnon at II, iii)
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I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ajax at II, iii)

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It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for
supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at III, iii)
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She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our
poverty.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Margaret, Queen to King Henry at I, iii)

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I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many
summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride
At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with
service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii)

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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Olivia at III, i)

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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: None

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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Author: Fulton John Sheen
Source: None

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There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents
others from becoming so.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and
hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous
obsession.
Author: Iris Murdoch
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he
does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.
Author: William Hazlitt
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.
Author: William Wordsworth
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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean
advantages.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more
of it than the next man.
Author: C. S. Lewis
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and
sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Author: Jewish Proverb
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To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
Author: Jean Baptiste Masillon
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Author: Fulton J. Sheen
Source: None
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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a
man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None

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There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he
had that thought.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
Author: Voltaire
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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but
prevents others from becoming so.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are
green and vigorous in old age.
Author: George Santayana
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Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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