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Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.
The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
That's one thing I try to take pride in: not changing up. Just being who I am, and having people love me or hate me for who I am.
I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.
You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair
Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura .
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.
How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we, as a country, are one of the best countries to be a child.
Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
That's one thing I pride myself on is working hard in the weight room, working hard in practice, trying to become a better player.
Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.
I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.
I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.
It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.
My students are very special. They are my source of pride, my source of joy, my source of hope. I am terribly fond of my students.
Brown v. Board helped unite us all, and gave us all great pride knowing we all are truly E Pluribus Unum - one people out of many.
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.
Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.
One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.
Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.
Americans take justifiable pride in the freedoms given to them by nature or God and enshrined in the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.
I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.
Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
Trump's creating laws for crimes that don't exist. In Canada, we have Prime Minister Trudeau in the gay Pride parade waving a flag.
The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.
I love bugs. And as the first person to popularize their eating in America, I take special pride in seeing their appreciation soar.
I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.
It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.
I can't believe the sense of community here, the amount of pride the people who run this city have in Las Vegas. They are wonderful.
You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
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.
I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.
I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics and if that was said as Barney Stinson it would mean a little different thing.
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.