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Pride

«We need to dream big dreams, propose grandiose means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.»
«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»
Author: Minna Antrim | About: Pride, Women | Keywords: admirer, notoriously, physique
«What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic»
Author: Queen Victoria | About: Life, Pride | Keywords: cow
«What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars»
«The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Pride | Keywords: concern, inferiors, superiors
«To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the»
«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»
«The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other»
«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.»
«We are rarely proud when we are alone.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Pride | Keywords: proud

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