The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

Race pride, socialist ideals, and a sincerity as exalted as that of Carlyle's visionaries coalesced in Asa Philip Randolph.

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.

I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem

The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.

I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.

Look back on your wedding And be filled with joy and pride Deservedly so, for the many years You've flourished, side by side

All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood.

I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

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

It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.

I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.

My game is kind of built around hitting shots - that's what I take pride in, and it's what separates myself from other guys.

Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.

All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.

Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you have less.

If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, 'Don't listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!'

It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

Step into a new you each day. Reach out to greater health, happiness, fitness, friendship, love and greater pride in yourself.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

My heart was bursting with pride the night I fought Steve Robinson in Wales, and I made the champion look like the challenger.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.

Pride is when sinful human beings aspire to the status and position of God and refuse to acknowledge their dependence upon Him.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead.

Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

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