2,116 Quotes About Pride


  • Author Louis Gossett, Jr.
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    I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.

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  • Author Lyndon B. Johnson
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    I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

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  • Author Naveen Jain
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    'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.

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  • Author P. D. James
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    If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

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

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  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

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