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You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. — Jules Verne

How pride had kept them from admitting their mistakes - and — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

But your good opinion is rarely bestowed and therefore more worth the earning. — Jane Austen

Dont just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions. — Roger Milla

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. — William Gilbert

Be humble and set the balls of your dreams rolling till God himself decides what next! As for "pride", allow it to go as a lone ranger! — Israelmore Ayivor

I will only add, God bless you. — Jane Austen

Her Highness swallowed her pride, threw on her big girl bustle, and stepped bravely into the world of single chickdom. — Kym Petrie

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. — Paul Bryant

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them. — Charley Pride

It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence. — Criss Jami

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth. — Gertrude Atherton

But pride is the luxury of the strong. — Patrick Rothfuss

Confidence cannot escalate to arrogance, it only happens if the blood of pride is running through your veins. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Take pride in your despicable enemies because it means you've stood up for your beliefs. — Anne Blankman

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. — William Hazlitt

A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. — Chinua Achebe

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put. — J. Paul Getty

Ironically, moral relativists often even pride themselves on being morally superior to others. — Nancy Pearcey

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her. — Charles Caleb Colton

It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen

Pride is a ridiculous thing, but when you're in desperate straits and it's all you have left, it becomes your most valuable asset. — Manel Loureiro

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on. — Ford Frick

False humility is more insulting than open pride! — Brandon Mull

Pride will tell you, you don't need crutches, but humility is more powerful than pride. — Lorilyn Roberts

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. — Herbert Croly

By this act He affirms that the enemy of love is pride, and that the enemy of all good is the refusal to love. — Antonin Sertillanges

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. — William Faulkner

I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions. — Walt Disney

Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid. — Richie Norton

You want to know how I got these scars. I swallowed my pride and then it crawled its way out of my mouth. — Rudy Francisco

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. — Richard Steele

The greatest joy I get is setting up plays for somebody else. I take a lot of pride in helping other people make plays. — Troy Polamalu

If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam. — Maggie Stiefvater

I remind you that I have no faith. If I sought God, I find myself. — Henry De Montherlant

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain. — Jane Austen

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community. — Sara Sheridan

Pride had given way at last, obstinacy was gone: the will was powerless. — Emmuska Orczy

It was about them having pride in that and wanting everyone to know it, especially you. Ham — Kristen Ashley

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. — George Eliot

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie. — Julia Roberts

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness. — John Climacus

Pride, lust, and whiskey are a potent combination. — Rachel Bach

And all he'd really bruised was her pride. — Nora Roberts

Redefined soul anew, bow now with pride. Reborn from the darkness, a man now wise. — Tyler J. Hebert

The knowledge of the purpose of the success that you receive by grace in every area will keep us from pride and the love of money — Sunday Adelaja

I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Hershey was a source of pride for the townspeople of Smiths Falls, and was the instrument that put food on many tables. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time. — CM Punk

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance. — Anthony Liccione

I shall never relinquish my sword for a ring. The right man wouldn't ask me to. — Seth Grahame-Smith

It is a testament to my parents that they never reacted negatively to the four-year-long pride parade that marched through their house. — Tina Fey

...it was a pride that transcended the emptiness of gestures — Cassandra Clare

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it. — Laurence Sterne

There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more you grow. — Anthony Liccione

without a word / without my pride / I reach out from the inside — Peter Gabriel

Pride and integrity are some ingredients that define respect. Don't compromise them for short lived attention. — Alexandra Kinias

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's. — Ezra Taft Benson

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride. — Max Anders

My pride in Joachim Mahlke was as sweet as chocolate creams. — Gunter Grass

Pride is like a facade on the exterior of our souls. — Jenni Catron

Pride and folly, they go together like two tightly grasping hands. — Patrick Rothfuss

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad. — Brad Moore

I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for. — Maggie Stiefvater

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground. — William Tyler

The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in. — Gavin O'Connor

Some set great value on method, while others pride themselves on dispensing with method. — Chai Lu

Dance allows confidence to grow and inhibitions to fall away, and I pride myself on building people's confidence. — Andrew Stone

Pride is the archenemy of ministry. — Beth Moore

My vegetable patch is my pride and joy. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

I hope others take as much pride in the sport as I do. — Johnny Damon

Pride renders faith impossible. — Andrew Murray

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. — Hosea Ballou

Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women. — Paul C. Nagel

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. — George Chapman

Pride was dangerous and could make you vulnerable. — Henning Mankell

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another. — Elizabeth Eulberg

It's as if our name is both our greatest pride and our curse," I say. — Philippa Gregory

Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life. — Mark Twain

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. — Baron De Montesquieu

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety. — Adam Levin

I pride myself on being one of the oldest fans. I can certainly count up about seventy years of devotion. — Herbert Hoover

There is no shame in falling down but there is pride in getting back up. — Lilly Singh

Pride does not listen. It knows. — Kevin Vanhoozer

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If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down. — Danny Boyle

Self importance is pride of a soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I want a girl that can swallow my pride. — Frank Zappa

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up. — Swami Vivekananda

I have read that the finest Persian carpets would have one strand deliberately left astray, to avoid the sin of pride that perfection might bring. — Ivan Doig

My honour and my pride are in my heart, and not in what the world says. — Philippa Gregory

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity. — Narendra Modi

Pride doesn't go before a fall, it keeps you from falling. — Shane Peacock

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music. — Zubin Mehta

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing. — Criss Jami

Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind. — James Joyce

To abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. — Walter M. Miller Jr.