| 52 Pride Quotes
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“Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.”
Gerard Way Quotes |
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“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”
Stacey Charter Quotes |
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“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell Quotes |
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“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.”
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“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.”
Cesar Chavez Quotes |
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“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
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“As proud as Lucifer.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus (sc. A Country Town)
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“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a
fall.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. XVI, v. 18)
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“Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it;
I like to be despised.”
Isaac Bickerstaff Quotes Source: The Hypocrite (act V, sc. 1)
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“They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 14)
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“Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Eastward Ho!
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“Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.”
George Chapman Quotes Source: Eastward Ho!
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“Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault)
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.”
Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon Quotes Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 161)
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“Lord of human kind.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Spanish Friar (act II, sc. 1)
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“Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
[Ger., Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Iphigenia auf Tauris (IV, 4, 120)
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“Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 327)
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“Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.”
William Knox Quotes Source: Mortality, Lincoln's favorite hymn
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“What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 203)
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“In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 124)
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“Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;
So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
For others' good, or melt at others' woe.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (l. 4)
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“Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario?”
Nicholas Rowe Quotes Source: The Fair Penitent (act V, sc. 1, l. 37), taken from Massinger's "Fatal Dowry"
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“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
- John Ruskin,”
John Ruskin Quotes Source: True and Beautiful--Morals and Religion--Conception of God (p. 426)
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“Why, who cries out on pride
That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea
Till that the weary very means do ebb?”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: As You Like It (Jaques at II, vii)
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“O, this life
Is nobler than attending for a check,
Richer than doing nothing for a robe,
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:
Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine
Yet keeps his book uncrossed.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Cymbeline (Belarius at III, iii)
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“He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it
Cry 'No recovery.'”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at II, iii)
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