Pride Quotes - Page 35

• When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

  Len Deighton

  War, Men, Profit

  "Eleven Declarations of War". Book by Len Deighton, 1971.

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• Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness. It's there bubbling along all the time. We experience it as restlessness and edginess. We experience it as fear. It motivates passion, aggression, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, but we never get down to the essence of it.

  Pema Chodron

  Moving, Ignorance, Passion

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.44, Shambhala Publications

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• Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Cat, Gentle

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• The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek, and lowly. It is without envy or pride. It is selfless because it seeks nothing in return. It does not countenance evil or ill will, nor rejoice in iniquity; it has no place for bigotry, hatred, or violence. It refuses to condone ridicule, vulgarity, abuse, or ostracism. It encourages diverse people to live together in Christian love regardless of religious belief, race, nationality, financial standing, education, or culture.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Christian, Religious, Exercise

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• Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold;
  Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold,
  Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway,
  Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

  Homer

  Life, Gold, Treasure

  Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

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• Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Sorry, People

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Done, Care

  Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

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• I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system.

  George Wald

  Life, Stars, Science

  "American politics and its interpreters". Book by Louis C. Reichman and Barry J. Wishart (p. 80), 1971.

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• Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

  John Steinbeck

  Grateful, Men, Awards

  John Steinbeck (2002). “America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction”, Viking Press

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• I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

  Daddy Yankee

  Careers, Community, Doubt

  "CFL Chats with Daddy Yankee". Interview with Krystyna Chávez, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 29, 2013.

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• I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys - I find time to make both a priority.

  Sheryl Crow

  Mom, Boys, Priorities

  "Sheryl Crow: My Sons 'Keep Me Young'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. September 30, 2013.

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• The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to us;– they implore us to think more of the character of our people than of its numbers; to look upon our vast natural resources, not as tempters to ostentation and pride, but as means to be converted by the refining alchemy of education into mental and spiritual treasures; ...and thus give to the world the example of a nation whose wisdom increases with its prosperity, and whose virtues are equal to its power.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Spiritual, Character

  "Report of an Educational Tour in Germany, and Parts of Great Britain and Ireland: Being Part of the Seventh Annual Report of Horace Mann".

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• If you would like to live in a community in which you may have pride, then dedicate yourself in a spirit of humility and your responsibilities in that community.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Humility, Responsibility, Community

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• One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride were soon recognized by most of his prospective customers. There was one worn, tiny wedge-shaped tool bearing the highest price, however, which seemed difficult to identify. "What is that?" someone asked. "I can't quite place it." "Oh that!" Satan answered. "That is Discouragement. It is my most valuable tool. With it I can open many hearts, since so few people know that it belongs to me."

  James Keller

  Business, Heart, People

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• Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

  James Bryce

  America, Liberty, Peculiar

  James Bryce “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 4: Illustrations and Reflections & Social Institutions”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's sake, and anger's sake, and hatred's sake, and selfishness' sake, and spiritual pride's sake; but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed a diabolical murder for sweet charity's sake. Mere self-interest, then, if no better motive can be enlisted, should, especially with high-tempered men, prompt all beings to charity and philanthropy.

  Herman Melville

  Wise, Spiritual, Sweet

  Herman Melville (1995). “Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall-Street”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Common Sense, Prudence, Pedantry

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.35

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• The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Eye, Humble

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Faith, Mother

  Charles Dickens, Ich ([pseud.].) (1856). “Immortelles from Charles Dickens”, p.112

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• A mother's pride, a father's joy.

  Walter Scott

  Mother, Father, Joy

  Sir Walter Scott (1838). “Poetical works”, p.245

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• No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Should, Feels

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• The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

  Rumi

  Strength, Lying, Evil

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• The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Knowledge, Science, Curves

  Konrad Lorenz (2002). “On Aggression”, p.279, Psychology Press

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• Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
  First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
  Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
  Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
  Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
  Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

  Alexander Pope

  Pain, Learning, Science

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.202

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• Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

  Phillips Brooks

  God, Confidence, Children

  "Sermons".

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