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When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

Dale Carnegie
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Fulton J. Sheen
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Pride is the mask we make of our faults. -Hebrew Proverb
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Pride sullies the noblest character.

Claudianus
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

Alan Paton
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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. -Democritus
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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.

Charles Caleb Colton
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

Moliere
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride. -Nancy Lopez
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We need to dream big dreams, propose grandiose means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.

Coleman Young
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Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

Jonathan Aitken
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Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. -Stuart Stevens
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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big butts.

Tyra Banks
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Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

Paul Bryant
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Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone. -Egyptian Proverb
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

General Douglas MacArthur
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Socrates
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Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields. -Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I have done that," says my memory. "I cannot have done that" -- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last -- memory yields.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Depression occurs when one looks back with no pride, and looks forward with no hope.

Robert Frost
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Swallow your pride, you will not die, it's not poison. -Bob Dylan
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I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

Steve Jobs
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This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare
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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride. -Ernest Hemingway
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To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.

Benjamin Franklin
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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Benjamin Franklin
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. -Douglas Adams
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There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

Woodrow Wilson
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Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

Joe Paterno
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Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned. -Ayn Rand
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