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James Hurst

???I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible, thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.???

Jean Baptiste Legouve

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.

C.S. Lewis

There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that t

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Pride and humiliation hand in hand Walked with them through the world where???er they went; Trampled and beaten were they as the sand, And yet unshaken as the continent.

Mignon McLaughlin

Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.

Joseph Priestley

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

Pride hath no other glass To show itself, but pride; for supple knees Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees.

Alexander Pope

From pride, from pride, our very reas???ning springs; Account for moral, as for nat???ral things: Why charge we Heav???n in those, in these acquit? In both, to reason right is to submit.

Jane Austen

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Jules Renard

Be modest It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Wil Wheaton

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

Brad Moore

Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

Joe Paterno

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Stuart Stevens

Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

Moliere

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.

Alighieri Dante

Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.

BYRON: _Siege of Corinth,_ St. 21.

'Tis said the lion will turn and flee From a maid in the pride of her purity.

Dante Alighieri

Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

COLERIDGE: _The Devil's Thoughts._

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.

James Hurst

???I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible, thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.???

MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 760.

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

All the world wondered as they witnessed ... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

William Arthur Ward

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride, And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Carl Gustav Jung

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.'

BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xiv., St. 57.

And whether coldness, pride, or virtue, dignify A woman; so she's good, what does it signify?

WORDSWORTH: _Res. and Indep.,_ St. 7.

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perish'd in his pride. Of him who walk'd in glory and in joy, Following his plough along the mountain side.

Samuel Johnson

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

Jerry Maguire

Jerry I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

PERCY: _Take Thy Old Cloak About Thee._

Itt 's pride that putts the countrye doune, Then take thine old cloake about thee.

POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. i., Line 289.

And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Pride and humiliation hand in hand Walked with them through the world where???er they went; Trampled and beaten were they as the sand, And yet unshaken as the continent.

Francesco Petrarch

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.

Samuel Johnson

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.

POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. ix., Line 524.

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold: Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of a day.

Paul Wiener

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.

Charles Krauthammer

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.

George Gordon Byron

The French courage proceeds from vanity ??” the German from phlegm ??” the Turkish from fanaticism & opium ??” the Spanish from pride ??” the English from coolness ??” the Dutch from obstinacy ??” the Russian from insensibility ??” but the Italian from anger.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Victor Kiam

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.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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.

Henry Louis Mencken

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.

Baha'u'llah

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.

Clive Staples Lewis

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.

POPE: _R. of the Lock,_ Canto iv., Line 31.

There affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen; Practis'd to lisp, and hang the head aside; Faints into airs, and languishes with pride; On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe, Wrapt in a gown, for sickness, and for sho

Oliver Goldsmith

Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade A breath can make them, as a breath has made but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.

YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night vii., Line 199.

If man loses all, when life is lost, He lives a coward, or a fool expires. A daring infidel (and such there are, From pride, example, lucre, rage, revenge, Or pure heroical defect of thought,) Of all earth's madmen, most deserves a chain.

Helen Hunt Jackson

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.

PRIOR: _Solomon on the V-of the World,_ Bk. i., Line 231.

Then vainly the philosopher avers That reason guides our deeds, and instinct theirs. How can we justly different causes frame, When the effects entirely are the same? Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride

Edith Sitwell

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 43.

Trace science then, with modesty thy guide; First strip off all her equipage of pride; Deduct what is but vanity, or dress, Or learning's luxury, or idleness; Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain; Expunge

SAMUEL F. SMITH: _National Hymn._

My country, 't is of thee, Sweet land of liberty,-- Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountain side Let freedom ring.

THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 539.

Then comes the tulip race, where beauty plays Her idle freaks; from family diffused To family, as flies the father-dust, The varied colors run; and while they break On the charmed eye, the exulting florist marks, With secret pride, the wonders of his hand

Richard Milhous Nixon

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.

We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined t

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we

Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Pride sullies the noblest character.

By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man???s values, it has to be earned.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

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.

Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

Pride, like laudanun and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

"Reno's full of women who have their pride." Paulette Goddard

"The pride of purpose in the unrewarding job" RUSH -Nobody's Hero

"I dreamed you had left my side, no warmth, not even pride remained"

"Stonewall Jackson? Charlie Pride?" -- TV's Frank

"I will sing a dirge in your honor and wear your skin with pride."

"Know thy pride, and the evil of thine heart." -- 1 Samuel 17:28

But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

"Bother," said Pooh, as he marched in the Gay Pride parade.

"Bother," said Pooh, marching in the Gay Pride parade

"Oral self-stimulation is possible," admitted Tom, swallowing his pride.

"I guess autofellatio IS possible," said Tom, swallowing his pride.

"I let my pride override my instinct." Tain

"Pride of the Zombies!" -- Mike Nelson

"Pride of Man , broken in the dust again" - QSMS

"Oral self-stimulation is fun!" said Tom, swallowing his pride.

"My pride has had terrible consequences for the galaxy." - Obi-Wan

"I pride myself in taking a punch, and will gladly take another."

"Pride goeth before destruction." -- Proverbs 16:18

Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity