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~ Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity. ~

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

~ To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions. ~

Kim Campbell

~ Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America's leadership in the world. ~

Marshall McLuhan

~ Arrogance frowns; pride smiles. ~

Mason Cooley

~ One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs ~

Josh Billings

~ If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ Vengeance, deep-brooding other the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow. ~

Sir Walter Scott

~ 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

~ 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

~ “We need to dream big dreams, propose grandiose means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.” ~

Coleman Young

~ With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance. ~

Norman Mailer

~ Pride in their port, defiance in their eye I see the Lords of human kind pass by. ~

Oliver Goldsmith

~ Pride separates excellence from mediocrity ~

Natalie

~ Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history -- the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of "heathens," and other no less repulsive manifestations of Christian civilization in Europe and elsewhere -- modern man is filled with pride in the "progress" accomplished, in one line at least, since the end of the dark ages of religious fanaticism. ~

Savitri Devi

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

Charles Caleb Colton

~ The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny. ~

Mark Twain

~ Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. ~

Robert Green Ingersoll

~ Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister ~

Thorstein Veblen

~ What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic ~

Queen Victoria

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

Benjamin Franklin

~ Love's humility is love's true pride. ~

Bayard Taylor

~ Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. ~

Horace Mann

~ Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. ~

Horace Mann

~ 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 Austin

~ A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life. ~

Walter Bagehot

~ The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny ~

Mark Twain

~ What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea. ~

Mark Twain

~ In the fledgling days of the town, the notorious Block 16 was set aside for card games and prostitution. Sin and commerce have marched hand-in-hand ever since, but this alliance made Las Vegas no more atypical than any other American city of the time. The difference is that Las Vegas extolled with pride what other places sought to hide. To the commonplace culture of heavily populated cities and industrial towns that made up the urban fabric of the country, Las Vegas alone stood as the behavioral "Other," a land where the "victimless" crimes of sex, drink, and gambling were not only condoned, but celebrated. ~

MARK GOTTDIENER

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