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“I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.”

Littles Used Pride Honor Lows I've Learned Maintenance Badges Fussy

Author:Becki Newton

“Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.”

Book Written Pride Honor Boards Decency

Author:William Faulkner

“Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.”

Way Pride Honor Various Delicate Scruples

Book:Absalom, Absalom!

Source: Absalom, Absalom!

“In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.”

Years Long Soul Country Freedom Land Pride Honor Let Me Perseverance Shade Fades Vistas

Author:John Keats

“As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself.”

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.”

Whole Difficult Quality Talent Pride Amount Genius Honor Labor Claims Aids Dependent

Author:William C. Bryant

“The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.”

Christian Interest Effects Poet Pride Honor Enterprise Heroic Worldly Fortitude

Author:John Dryden

“Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving, hide, They blaze abroad, with inconsid'rate pride; While yet but mere probationers for fame, They seize the honor they should then disclaim: Honor so hurried to the light must fade, The lasting laurels nourish in the shade.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride.”

Feels Sports Numbers Player Pride Honor Significant Nfl Retired Tennessee

Author:Peyton Manning

“Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.”

Ends Evil Justice Lord Power Rocks Taught Pride Honor Shining Wicked Mourn Sanctuary Fiery Robes

Book:The Christian Psalmist: Or, Watts' Psalms and Hymns, with Copious Selections from Other Sources

Source: The Christian Psalmist: Or, Watts' Psalms and Hymns, with Copious Selections from Other Sources

“Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.”

Love Two Love Is Effects Pride Honor Affection Presenting Constancy

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.”

Whole Pride Honor Roots Whole Life Mexican

Author:Salma Hayek

“In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.”

Knows Love Feels Trying Heart Order Grows Pay Struggle Pride Honor Enlightenment Deserve Perfection And Love Dues Division Relish

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“If you are a professional actor who has pride in his work, then the judgment of your peers should be important to you. I treasure each and every award I have ever received - and my Oscar is in a place of honor.”

Ifs Should Important Actors Pride Honor Judgment Treasure Awards Oscars Peers

Author:Sophia Loren

“He who prides himself upon wealth and honor hastens his own downfall.”

Wealth Pride Honor Downfall

Author:Laozi

“It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that it is respected by those who are in his charge. Moreoever, it is the duty of a faithful minister not to exceed his powers and not to abuse his office in pride, but, rather, to administer it for the benefit of his subjects.”

Subjects Duty Pride Honor Office Benefits Abuse Ministers Faithful Ministry Exceed Prudent

Book:Lectures on Romans

Source: Lectures on Romans

“Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.”

Wells Ideas Values Challenges Principles Courage Pride Honor Dignity Meaningful Temptation Mundane Meaningful Life Mundane Life

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.”

Ifs Art Book Dream Mother Numbers Responsibility Written Security Pride Honor Motherhood Boards Anguish Decency Ruthless Old Lady Odes

Author:William Faulkner

“The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.”

Men Needs Writing Heart Has Beens Helping Past Hope Voice Compassion Records Sacrifice Poet Duty Pride Honor Glory Endure Privilege Pity Lifting Pillars Reminding Props

Author:William Faulkner

“You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride." "I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.”

Ifs Men Made Desire Belief Christ Impossible Taught Pride Honor Doctrine

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.”

Accepting Self Esteem Humility Pride Bears Honor Dignity Criticism Mark Defeat Maturity Poise Graciousness

Book:Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward

Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward

“America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that with loving pride we drape the colors in tribute of respect to this citizen of your great republic. And here and now, in the presence of the illustrious dead, we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful issue. Lafayette, we are here.”

Heart War America Force Issues Successful Blood Military Color Pride Citizens Honor Treasure Republic Here And Now Pledge Tribute Drapes Lafayette

Author:Charles E. Stanton

“Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.”

Pride Honor Loyalty These Days Your Honor

Book:The Sacred Band

Source: The Sacred Band