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| Ingen har kvävts av att svälja sin stolthet. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| Stolthet är en form av välbehag som är skapat av en person som tänker för gott om sig själv. | Benedict de Spinoza |
| Vad ska en man vara stolt över, om han inte är stolt över sina vänner? | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Ulykkelige mennesker er, i lighed med de søvnløse, altid stolte af at være det. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Ingen kan få dig til at føle dig mindreværdig, undtagen din samvittighed. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| 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 (1903-1988) |
| You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride | Charleszetta Waddles (1912-2001) |
| 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 (1918-1997) |
| Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone | Egyptian Proverb |
| Pride is the mask we make of our faults | Hebrew Proverb |
| A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work - the pride that makes business an art | Henry Doherty |
| In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride | Jonathan Aitken (1942-) |
| Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique | Minna Antrim (1861-1950) |
| 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 (1952-) |
| Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. | Paul Bryant (1913-1983) |
| 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 (1973-) |
| My house to me is like my castle | William Stanford |
| Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. | Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) |
| Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. | Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) |
| The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence | Jan Morris (1926-) |
| Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage | Muslih-uddin Sadi |
| Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home | Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) |
| A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| No one ever choked to death swallowing his pride | Bible |
| Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there. | Bible |
| When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom | Bible |
| Pride will have a fall; For pride goeth before and shame cometh after | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| 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. | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity. | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride | Charleszetta Waddles (1912-2001) |
| Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. | Paul Bryant (1913-1983) |
| In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground | Spanish Proverb |
| Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| 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 (1952-) |
| Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. | Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) |
| The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about. | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| Pride comes before a fall | Proverb |
| Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in the | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom | Bible |
| Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall | Bible |
| A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men | Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) |
| Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone | Egyptian Proverb |
| There are two kinds of curiosity: the first drives us to seek what serves our own advantage; the other is pride in knowing what others don’t know. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich | French Proverb |
| Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive. | Gerard Way |
| Pride is the mask we make of our faults | Hebrew Proverb |
| They take their pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work - the pride that makes business an art | Henry Doherty |
| It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief | Japanese Proverb |
| As soon as there was two there was pride | John Donne (1572-1631) |
| Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| Proud of his learning (just enough to quote), He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory: With memory excellent to get by rote, With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story, Graced with some merit, and with more effrontery, 'His country's pride,' he came down to | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. | Norman Mailer (1923-) |
| Pride will have a fall; For pride goeth before and shame cometh after | Proverb |
| A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity | Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Pride had rather out of the way than go behind | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Pride will spit in pride's face. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. | General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) |
| We are rarely proud when we are alone. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. | William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) |
| My pride fell with my fortunes. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars | William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |