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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

Ambition - what is the good of pride of place when you cannot appear there? What is the good of the love of woman when her name must needs be Delilah? — H.G.Wells

Forget your pride (what have you to be proud of?) and forget your anger (who has done you wrong?) and accept the mercy of these good kings. — C.S. Lewis

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

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 a thing to be regretted (and prevented, if possible) that a whole nation should be ruined for the pride and obstinacy of its princes, — Matthew Henry

the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It — George R R Martin

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair. — Ovid

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness. — Eugene H. Peterson

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well. — Anthony Mackie

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

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

The privacy of pride. — Guy Gavriel Kay

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

Nothing is more helpful to reduce pride than the actual experience of self-knowledge. If we are discouraged by it, we have misunderstood its meaning. — Thomas Keating

That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. — George R R Martin

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction. — Criss Jami

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

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question ... so break 'yo'self'! — T.F. Hodge

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. — Alexander Pope

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. — Jonathan Swift

But it is not out of pride that I do not surrender-"
"I do not surrender therefor I am proud" -Hibari Kyoya — Akira Amano

If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living. — T.F. Hodge

The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldogs pedigree. — Robert Bolt

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson. — E. M. Forster

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. — Mahatma Gandhi

Crude carvings, Alviri work. Kenjak felt a small surge of pride that the Dvergiri had never produced something so ugly. Since — K. Eason

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do. — Henry Rollins

Shatter your pride in dust to vanish into the joy of longing and love. — Debasish Mridha

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. — Benjamin Franklin

If you are capable to succeed, this pride would be on behalf of his or her credit. — Saaif Alam

I had discarded pride, that useless burden of self-importance I had carried around like my portable vanity with its broken mirror. — Amy Tan

Confession is a kind of pride. — Francis Balfour-Browne

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I felt a strange sense of pride, being able to claim her this way. Kind of Neanderthal of me, but there it was. — Stephenie Meyer

We pride ourselves on making a good history of our lives, a good story to be told. And — Terry Pratchett

After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit. — Friedrich Muller

If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first. — Jon Osborne

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall. — Shunryu Suzuki

My nose!" he screams, blood gushing between his fingers. "She broke my freakin' nose!"
A rush of pride courses through me. That's my girlfriend. — David Estes

Never wear pride as the jersey of your dreams. You will miss the goal and lose your dreams if you put on pride! — Israelmore Ayivor

Would rather learn from failures I'm proud of than take pride in success I don't believe in. — Maksim Chmerkovskiy

Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it. — Stephen Charnock

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. — Josh Billings

Pride achieves almost nothing but destroys a lot. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair — Marcus Buckingham

The walls of hell are coated with arrogance, and the floor is covered with pride. — T.A. Cline

If two people could make each other smile and laugh and forget all the pain and darkness in the world for a moment, why should we feel ashamed of it? — Leah Raeder

Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled — Neil Peart

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride. — Robert Browning

I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones. — Charley Pride

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Pride is the archenemy of ministry. — Beth Moore

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

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

I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride, — Fatou Bensouda

Am I seriously the only one of us who prides herself on being a truly authentic person? — Hannah

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. — Joseph Addison

Enemy," hiss the bushes all around. The rest of the Pride glided forward, surrounding Lily, Rowan, and Spike. — Josephine Angelini

A man needs to feel a little fear, Tolui, if only to have the pride of conquering it. — Conn Iggulden

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by. — Oliver Goldsmith

Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat. — Avijeet Das

When you move away from where you grew up, I think you tend to have even more pride of where you came from. — Kristopher Belman

Pride is the great enemy of unity — Henry B. Eyring

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. — Baruch Spinoza

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. — Susanna Moodie

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. — Adam Clarke

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques. — Bryant McGill

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life. — Bill Cosby

I used to focus more on scoring. Now I take a lot of pride and pleasure in helping someone else do well. — Landon Donovan

The less worth of a man,the greater his pride. — Yukito Kishiro

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of. — Elbert Hubbard

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God. — C.S. Lewis

Satan fell by the force of gravity. — G.K. Chesterton

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