Personal Pride Quotes

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

  William Blake

  Attitude, Commitment, Pride

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  Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• 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, Community, Lines

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.551, Regnery Publishing

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• Motivating through fear may work in the short term to get people to do something, but over the long run I believe personal pride is a much greater motivator. It produces far better results that last for a much longer time.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Running, Believe

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• Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Pride, Modesty, Virtue

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• We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

  Alan Cohen

  Success, Sports, Believe

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• Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

  Edmund Burke

  Pride, Men, Order

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.188

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• A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

  Integrity, Pride, Men

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• Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

  Charles Stross

  Pride, Merit, Guides

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• 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, Equality, Trying

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XIV, 1840.

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• All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who really matter. Love and hate are the same things, differently sifted through personal... pride, or what have you... personal pride or even just personal-ness.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hate, Pride, Soul

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

  Frank Chodorov

  Attitude, Pride, Reason

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• You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human.

  Bill Watterson

  Pride, Source, Humans

  "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1990.

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