pride quotes

• And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope. (Robert Frost) [look/pride/look]
• And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope. (Robert Frost) [look/pride/look]
• Pride the first peer and president of hell. (Daniel Defoe) [pride/president]
• Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. (Joseph Addison) [pride/destruction/spirit]
• It is my PRIDE, my damn d, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 --20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative! (Thomas Chatterton) [pride/pride/pride/slave]
• Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [contempt/pride/weakness/more]
• If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [pride]
• There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. (Charles Caleb Colton) [paradox/pride/men]
• When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us. (Charles Caleb Colton) [fail/pride]
• 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. (Charles Caleb Colton) [fail/pride]
• Pride the first peer and president of hell. (Daniel Defoe) [pride/president]
• Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. (Benjamin Franklin) [pride/vanity/contempt]
• Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. (Benjamin Franklin) [idleness/pride]
• We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. (Benjamin Franklin) [idleness/pride]
• And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope. (Robert Frost) [look/pride/look]
• Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. (Thomas Fuller) [pride/humility]
• There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. (William Hazlitt) [pride/human/tyranny/order]
• Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. (William Hazlitt) [fame/look/pride]
• Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. (Eric Hoffer) [pride/pride]
• A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. ( Horace) [mankind/take/pride/more]
• Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. (Thomas Jefferson) [pride/more/cold]
• 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) [pride/cowardice]
• Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. (Samuel Johnson) [pride/willpower]
• All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment. (Ray Kroc) [money/pride]
• Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [pride/wish/vanity/wish]
• The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride. (Martin Luther) [god/pleasure/pride]
• By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven. (Douglas MacArthur) [soldier/take/pride/soldier]
• By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven. (Douglas MacArthur) [soldier/take/pride/soldier]
• Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [more/pride]
• At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. (Alexander Pope) [take/pride]
• Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel. (Alexander Pope) [pride/men/men]

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