Quotes and Sayings About Pride
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There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
-- Aaron Levie -
The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not in opulence, but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society.
-- Abba Hillel Silver -
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.
-- Abby May Alcott -
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
-- Abu Bakr -
I take pride in my music, I feel like it actually does something for people personally, in their personal lives, so it's real music and it helps people get through things like I was able to get through things.
-- Ace Hood -
Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
-- Achy Obejas -
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
-- Adam ClarkeSource : Adam Clarke (1831). “Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace”, p.307
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In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that he may grant to us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that he may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.
-- Adolf Hitler -
A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
-- Adoniram Judson -
I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be driven and be nice.
-- Aerin Lauder -
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Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.
-- Aeschylus -
It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
-- Agnes MartinSource : Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway (1973). “Agnes Martin: Exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”
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You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.
-- Ai Yazawa -
One thing I've learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.
-- Ai-jen Poo -
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Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
-- Alain-Rene LesageSource : "Gil Blas". Book by Alain-René Lesage. Book VII, Chapter 3, 1735.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
-- Alan Paton -
I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.
-- Alan ShepardSource : "It's Been 25 Years Since We Took That Giant Leap For Mankind - Moon Odyssey" by James Endrst, The Hartford Courant, p. B1, July 08, 1994.
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According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world . They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.
-- Albert J. NockSource : "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 314), 1943.
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As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
-- Albert J. Nock -
There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.
-- Aldo Leopold -
I take pride in being one of the tougher guys helping the team pressure and there were so many times when I was watching the games that it just killed me inside. Sometimes I couldn't watch and would just walk around the top level of the stadium.
-- Alecko Eskandarian -
What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.
-- Aleister Crowley -
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I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.
-- Alejandro Zambra -
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
-- Alexander Pope -
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.
-- Alexander Pope