Pride Quotes And Sayings

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“I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.”
– Michael Jackson

“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
– Michel de Montaigne

“Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.”
– Michel de Montaigne

“It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.”
– Murray Rothbard

“A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It’s all a matter of pride.”
– Nancy Lopez

“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder… We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.”
– obert Mugabe

“There’s a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.”
– Orhan Pamuk

“The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.”
– Pat Conroy

“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

“Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.”
– Paul Bryant

“Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.”
– Paul David Tripp

“Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”
– Petrarch

“Pride comes before a fall”
– Proverb

“Pride will have a fall; For pride goeth before and shame cometh after”
– Proverb

“There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.”
– Quintilian

“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“They can talk shit about each other behind the others’ backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one true race and everyone down here is the color of greenbacks and as tall as mountains.”
– Richard Kadrey

“Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.”
– Robert Fulghum

“I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”
– Rudyard Kipling

“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
– Saint Augustine

“Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.”
– Saint Augustine of Hippo

“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”
– Samuel Butler

“Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself”
– Samuel Johnson

“I am incapable of mediocrity.”
– Serge Gainsbourg

“The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell”
– Simone Weil

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
– Sophocles

“The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.”
– Søren Kierkegaard

“If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.”
– St. François de Sales

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