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Letter "P" » Pride
«Humility is pride in God»
«Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.»
«Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.»
Author: Horace Mann
| About:
Generosity,
Pride
| Keywords:
benevolence, generosity, genuine, liberality, proceeds
«Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Pride
| Keywords:
Disciplining, highroad, Personal self, self esteem
«Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Pride,
Sex
«Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Idleness,
Pride
| Keywords:
governments, heavier, heavy-handed, idleness
«Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.»
«Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Pride
| Keywords:
lying-in, lying in wait, worthwhile
«He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise»
«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.»
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