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“We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.”

Believe Happens Success Order Sports Pride Things Happen Winner Believe In Yourself Believe In You Make Things Happen Personal Pride

Author:Alan Cohen

“Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.”

Men Order Quality Pride Arrogance Proportion Despise Aristocracy Personal Pride Pride And Arrogance

Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

“Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.”

Pride Guides Merit Personal Pride

Author:Charles Stross

“A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present”

Ifs Men Interest Lines Greater Duty Pride Integrity Superiors All Time Personal Pride

Author:Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

“Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.”

Virtue Pride Careful Modesty Hindrance Building Confidence Personal Pride

Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman

“You know, there are times when it's a source of personal pride to not be human.”

Knows Humans Source Pride Personal Pride

Author:Bill Watterson

“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

“Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage.”

May Form Individual Community Lines Pride Morality Equal Members Ethics Advantage Inequality Endeavor Rise Above Personal Pride

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Motivating through fear may work in the short term to get people to do something, but over the long run I believe personal pride is a much greater motivator. It produces far better results that last for a much longer time.”

People Believe May Long Running Lasts I Believe Term Results Greater Produce Pride Basketball Coaching Nba Long Runs Short Term Personal Pride

Author:John Wooden

“Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.”

Attitude Pride Commitment Excellence Mediocrity Personal Pride

Author:William Blake

“If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.”

Ifs Should States Reason Attitude Pride Governors Bureaucracy Legislators Prompts Lackeys Personal Pride

Author:Frank Chodorov

“All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who really matter. Love and hate are the same things, differently sifted through personal... pride, or what have you... personal pride or even just personal-ness.”

Soul Matter Hate Pride Settling Love And Hate Personal Pride

Book:Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.”

Trying May Form Individual Levels Common Pride Citizens Equal Strive Profit Equality Inequality Personal Pride

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville