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"All the world wondered as they witnessed ... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride." Corazón Cojuangco Aquino 3.5556 average rating  
"It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens." Baha'u'llah 4.9375 average rating  
"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us." Charles Caleb Colton 5.0000 average rating  
"Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man." Alighieri Dante 4.7500 average rating  
"The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election." Gerald R. Ford 2.0000 average rating  
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." Kahlil Gibran 4.8214 average rating  
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." Sydney J. Harris 5.0000 average rating  
"Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works." Robert Hewison 4.5000 average rating  
"Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second." Helen Hunt Jackson 5.0000 average rating  
"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a" Dr. Samuel Johnson 3.0000 average rating  
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'" Carl Gustav Jung 4.9000 average rating  
"The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security." John Fitzgerald Kennedy 4.3333 average rating  
"All 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 Fitzgerald Kennedy 4.8000 average rating  
"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." John Fitzgerald Kennedy 4.5882 average rating  
"What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking a television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that." Victor Kiam 4.1429 average rating  
"We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy." Dean Koontz 4.5000 average rating  
"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it." Charles Krauthammer 5.0000 average rating  
"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-Tzu 4.7500 average rating  
"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride." Clive Staples Lewis 4.7500 average rating  
"The pride of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi 4.5405 average rating  
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Clive Staples Lewis Corazón Cojuangco Aquino Dean Koontz
Dr. Samuel Johnson Gerald R. Ford Helen Hunt Jackson
Henry Louis Mencken John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kahlil Gibran
Lao-Tzu Robert Hewison Sydney J. Harris
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