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Letter "P" » pride
«To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us»
«Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth»
«When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.»
Author: Hugh Newell Jacobsen
| About:
Cities
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«The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.»
Author: Lloyd Dobens
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«Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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«When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity»
Author: Dale Carnegie
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People
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«Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.»
«What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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