Pride Quotes

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Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and… — Michel de Montaigne
Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another. — Eric Hoffer
When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people… — Charles Lamb
But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all… — Robert Louis Stevenson
My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition. — Gloria Steinem
Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love. — Baruch Spinoza
However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him… — Alexis de Tocqueville
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around. — Robert Breault
So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium. — John Mason Brown
[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on… — Greg Peterson
All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have… — Wendell Berry
The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every… — Saint Augustine
Itâ€™s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western… — Aviva Chomsky
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace. — Publilius Syrus
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is. — Saint John Chrysostom
The Negro is superior to the white race. If the latter do not forget their pride of race and color, and amalgamate with the purer… — Henry Ward Beecher
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs,… — S. J. Perelman
Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage. — Saadi
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to… — Lord Chesterfield
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may… — Joseph Conrad

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