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This is a list of quotes about pride
Angels and devils
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
As a free manAll free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'
John F. Kennedy
FameFame 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.
William Hazlitt
Generosity and prideGenerosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
My prideMy pride fell with my fortunes.
William Shakespeare
Our prideNothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Secret pride in every human heartThere is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
William Hazlitt
Simple premiseTonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack Obama
The infinitely littleThe infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
Voltaire
ViceIs pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Alexander Pope
What is pride?What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
William Wordsworth
Without despairJesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise Pascal
WoundedOur vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich Nietzsche
