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~ Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. ~

Johann Georg von Zimmermann

~ Disappointment weighs heavy on the pride. ~

Mike Howerton

~ The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ~

Samuel Butler

~ Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible. ~

Sir Richard Steele

~ 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. ~

Jane Austen

~ "Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments." ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ 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 gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. ~

Dr. Samuel Johnson

~ Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status ~

Lao-Tzu

~ Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of ~

Benjamin Franklin

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

William Hutton

~ Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride. ~

Claude Bernard

~ Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. ~

Paul Bryant

~ The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ~

Samuel Butler

~ Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, scarcely one meets with less success than affectation, which is a perpetual disguise of the real character by false appearances ~

Johnson

~ When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. ~

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

~ When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. ~

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

~ Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure. ~

Gary Ryan Blair

~ More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride. ~

Dan Gable

~ Pride separates excellence from mediocrity ~

Natalie

~ Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. ~

Paul \"Bear\" Bryant

~ It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments. ~

Daniel Moynihan

~ The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. ~

Claudian

~ 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 vivac. ~

Johann Kaspar Lavater

~ What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history? ~

Joseph Conrad

~ A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground. ~

Spanish Proverb

Johann Kaspar Lavater

~ Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. ~

Giorgos Seferis

~ 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

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