Pride Quotes - Page 34

• We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Adventure, Rocks, Climbing

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.18, Penguin

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• When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness

  Donald Bradman

  Sports, Integrity, Believe

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• Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

  William Hazlitt

  Respect, Heart, Order

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• A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clever, One Liner, Company

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.327, Penguin

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• Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

  Oswald Chambers

  Determination, Mean, Obsessed

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• For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Prayer, Patriotic, Men

  Telephone Talk With Apollo 11 Astronauts on the Moon, delivered 20 July 1969, Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Art, Suicidal

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• It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most of the citizens of big counties-those, that is, that have the status of being "powers" in the world-far from being self-centered or materialistic as they are commonly credited with being, the ordinary citizen and his elected representative all too often turn out to be romantics, ready and eager to sacrifice programs of health, education and welfare for the power and pride of the nation.

  J. William Fulbright

  Educational, Sacrifice, Government

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• He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.

  Margaret Truman Daniel

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Growing Up

  "On Centennial, Truman Recalled In Washington" by Martin Tolchin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1984.

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• The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.

  Charles B. Macdonald

  Mistake, Golf, Bunkers

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• Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies' Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humility, Golf, Should Have

  P. G. Wodehouse (2006). “The Heart of a Goof”

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• And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Prayer, Men, Envy

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• Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Strength, Wise, Strong

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Hypocrisy, Greed

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• This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race. (13th February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Religious, War

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• I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Home, Humility

  Douglas MacArthur's farewell address to a Joint Session of Congress, www.americanrhetoric.com. April 19, 1951.

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• You must give soldiers reasons to have confidence and pride in themselves, in their leaders, and in their units. Only then will you have loyalty. Loyalty was the primary trait I looked for in soldiers.

  George W. Dunaway

  Loyalty, Army, Giving

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• Every good soldier wants to live in an organized environment, secure in the knowledge that he or she will not be threatened or harassed by others, confident that his or her efforts will be recognized, and aware that the nonproductive soldier will be invited to leave. In such an environment, soldiers will be proud of their units and will demonstrate that pride with their performance and behavior.

  William A. Connelly

  Army, Effort, Soldier

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• America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that with loving pride we drape the colors in tribute of respect to this citizen of your great republic. And here and now, in the presence of the illustrious dead, we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful issue. Lafayette, we are here.

  Charles E. Stanton

  Military, War, Heart

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• Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Military, Fighting, Marine

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• And all of these together, as much as any campaign the Marine Corps has ever pursued, have brought an unrelenting, never-ceasing pride to all of us who have ever claimed the title of United States Marine

  Jim Webb

  Military, Marine, Together

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• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ignorance, Self, Ignorant

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• There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sounds very well to garden a 'natural way'. You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell. Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners.

  Henry Mitchell

  Nature, Garden, Hands

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.3, Indiana University Press

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• What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know. We rise up laughing with the light, We lie down weeping with the night. We hug the world until it stings, We curse it then and sigh for wings. We live, we love, we woo, we wed, We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead. We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, And that's the burden of a year.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  New Year, Dream, Lying

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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