The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We've had now eight years and there's this prideful sense among many African Americans. When you think about how elated they are… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Pride makes us unapproachable. (...) But if a person possesses a realistic assessment of who she is, whence she's come, and where… — Dennis Okholm Copy Share Image
“As long as kashay’s (anger, pride, deceit, greed) do not go away, you have not attained God’s religion even a little bit.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“What is childlike humility? It's that precious, fleeting time before we have accumulated enough pride or position to care what other people… — Todd Burpo; Lynn Vincent Copy Share Image
I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“But why not take pride in this country? It's the envy of the world. A place where any man can realize his… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
It is extremely enticing to be one of the only faces of a particular brand. It allows for you to really see… — Christopher Eubanks Copy Share Image
Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“I would like to show you how to love as I love; and this sentiment alone would raise you above your kind.… — Jacques Cazotte Copy Share Image
I was full of pride when President Obama talked about coding in his last State of the Union address. I was proud… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all… — Tom Chappell Copy Share Image
God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Being proud isn't bragging about how great we are, its more like quietly knowing that we are worth a lot ! Its… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Do you have still the dye with which to turn your tunic red?’ ‘The madder? Yes, I do.’ ‘Enough of it for… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think I just earned the coaches' respect. That's not to say by any stretch that I'm dictating any game plans or… — Fred VanVleet Copy Share Image
“But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“When you discard arrogance' cool gritty, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with… — Donald Bradman Copy Share Image
Somebody does know how stuff works, and knowledge is power. Thus, as we become enslaved by our ever-more sophisticated technology, we are… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
“But in the time between when something gets thought and when it gets done, the ball hit me square across the side… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It's like being handed over a scantron sheet and demanded to paint a self-portrait on it. It's possible, of course, but why… — Alok Vaid-Menon Copy Share Image
Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition Â… we lose something of the ability to… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“The intellectually insecure drop the word “pretentious” to shut down a conversation they don’t understand, when simply saying “I don’t know” or… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“Abandon pride, which is the same as Tamas-guna (darkness), rooted as it is in ignorance and is a source of considerable pain;… — Tulsidas Copy Share Image
I retire from competition with great pride at having had a positive impact on my sport. I intend to keep training and… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
“I'm not even going to tell you what I think about what just happened in there. But I know it sucked and… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You… — Moses Malone Copy Share Image
For the wisdom of the flesh brings death, but that of the spirit brings life and peace, since the wisdom of the… — Peter Damian Copy Share Image
Trump provides a more direct and arrogant persona that produces the ugliness of a society ruled entirely by finance capital and savage… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image