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“I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."”

People Country Wise Failing Generations Dangerous Cry Pride Prove Ambition Dignity Institutions Selfish Our Country Secure Welfare Schemes Mock Deceptive True Patriotism False Pride

Author:Carl Schurz

“To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.”

Self Age Individual Social Results Effort Situation Failing Pride Morality Demand Adjustment Individual Morality

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.”

Space Failing Pride Monsters Colour Cosmic Entity

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.”

Steps Failing Pride Wit Void Defence

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope

“Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.”

Ifs Matter Fall Leader Failing Pride Guarantees Exception Demise Prunes

Author:John C. Maxwell

“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.”

“Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.”

Giving Long Remember Failing Pride Giving Up Okay Don't Give Up

Author:Dan O'Brien

“To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.”

Littles Sometimes Waiting Animal Failing Pride Gay Female Shining Dear Guides Golden Thee Tails Belly Wire Hue Peacock

Book:The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work

Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work

“If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.”

Ifs Too Much Failing Pride Ambition Too Much Pride

Author:Julius Caesar

“It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.”

Ifs Trying Problem Failing Pride Solve Who We Are Get Back Problem Solving Try Again

Author:Mitch McConnell

“William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.”

Ifs Firsts Doe Made Given Failing Pride Succeed Achievement Expectations Satisfaction Endeavour Humiliated

Author:Alain de Botton

“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”