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We've found 37 quotes for 'pride' (0.101 seconds):



"The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion." »Democritus 
"pride sullies the noblest character." »Claudianus 
"Be modest It is the kind of pride least likely to offend." »Jules Renard 
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." »Kahlil Gibran 
"I'm keenly aware of the pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here." »Wil Wheaton 
"pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system." »Stuart Stevens 
"pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad." »Brad Moore 
"To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to." »Moliere 
"pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man." »Alighieri Dante 
"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks." »Joe Paterno 
"All the world wondered as they witnessed ... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride." »Corazn Cojuangco Aquino 
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'" »Carl Gustav Jung 
"Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire." »Dante Alighieri 
"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it for when we fail our pride supports us when we succeed, it betrays us." »Charles Caleb Colton 
"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a" »Samuel Johnson 
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride." »Charles Caleb Colton 
"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation." »William Hutton 
"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." »Francesco Petrarch 
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy 
"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark." »Samuel Johnson 
"I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what Over the system, over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride." »Paul Wiener 
"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it." »Charles Krauthammer 
"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction" »Abraham Lincoln 
"What's really important in life Sitting on a beach Looking a television eight hours a day I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that." »Victor Kiam 
"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride." »Clive Staples Lewis 
"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely." »Hesketh Pearson 
"Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second." »Helen Hunt Jackson 
"The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters." »Henry Louis Mencken 
"The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy 
"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." »Baha'u'llah 
   BTW, Why won't you become an editor?

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