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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Jonathan Swift

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

Unknown

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

William Blake

Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone

Egyptian Proverb

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Thomas Jefferson

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Fulton J. Sheen

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

Samuel Johnson

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Defoe, Daniel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mark Twain

As soon as there was two there was pride

John Donne

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Benjamin Franklin

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

Bill Clinton

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Eric Hoffer

Disappointment weighs heavy on the pride.

Mike Howerton

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

Cybil Shepherd

Pampered vanity is a hotter thing perhaps than starved pride.

Joanna Baillie

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others.

Hugh Blair

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

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

“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

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