2,116 Quotes About Pride



  • Author Fred Brooks
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    We tend to blame the physical media for most of our implementation difficulties; for the media are not "ours" in the way the ideas are, and our pride colors our judgement.

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  • Author Herb Brooks
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    If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.

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  • Author Henry Ward Beecher
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    Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

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  • Author Henry Ward Beecher
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    When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

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  • Author Hosea Ballou
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    Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

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  • Author Honoré de Balzac
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    Beaucoup d'hommes ont un orgueil qui les pousse a' cacher leurs combats et a' ne se montrer que victorieux. Many men have pride that causes them to hide their combats and to only show themselves victorious.

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