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“As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.”

Knows Opinion Pride

Author:Albert J. Nock

“I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.”

Knows Doe Opportunity Pride Proud Roots Fantastic Nationality Cuban Ethnicity

Author:Danny Pino

“My daddy never really lived before he died, He could never count on justice or know a free man’s pride, And now it’s almost certain that I, too, will be denied, I’ve got to make things better for my son and for my tribe”

Knows Men Certain Justice Son Pride Died My Son Denied Tribes Daddy Free Man

Author:Bob Teague

“The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.”

Knows Might Mankind Pride Know Yourself

Book:Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. By Alexander Wishart

Source: Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. By Alexander Wishart

“Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two.”

Knows Want Two Important Sometimes Reason Religion Sin Answers Pride Machines Presses Phones Supreme Avarice Supreme Being Sin Of Pride

Author:Sherwood Anderson

“What's so wrong with vanity? It's different from narcissism, you know? It's not about admiring yourself-it's about taking pride in your appearance.”

Knows Different Pride Appearance Vanity Narcissism Admiring

Author:Tom Ford

“What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that feeling and put it in a form that communicates a particular set of emotions or circumstances - whether that involves depicting masculine pride, or a particular kind of suffering, or love, or closeness - my primary job is to feel and to try to put that feeling into some kind of visual form. My goal is to get to the heart of each story, you know? I’m trying to evolve in my work.”

“I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: "Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?”

People Thinking Knows Men Wells Challenges Education Stupid Mines Pride Fool Claims Criticize Presumptuous Marius

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.”

“There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.”

Knows Men Humans Littles Dies Knowing Pride Forgotten Gentle Severe Another Man Unkind

Book:The Man with the Heart in the Highlands & Other Early Stories

Source: The Man with the Heart in the Highlands & Other Early Stories

“All of us, single or married, are eternally part of some family-someway, somewhere, somehow-and much of our joy in life comes as we correctly recognize and properly develop those family relationships. We come to this earth charged with a mission: to learn to love and serve one another. To best help us accomplish this, God has placed us in families, for he knows that is where we can best learn to overcome selfishness and pride and to sacrifice for others and to make happiness and helpfulness and humility and love the very essence of our character.”

“A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.”

Knows Men Doe Use Lying Know How Pride Fool Liars Deceiving Eloquence Cleverness Flatterer

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.”

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning and see a whole community getting up and going to work. We want these young people to know the thrill of the first paycheck, the challenge of starting that first business, the pride in following in a parent's footsteps.”

“Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride-just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation.”

“We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.”

People Knows Men Way Want Giving Firsts Kind Ends Play Whole Night Guy Fun Sports Challenges Pride Ego Giving Up Beats Defense Score Coming Out Every Night Offense Back When

Author:Allen Iverson

“We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain.”

Knows World Should Ends Pain Joy Poverty Security This World Pride Sorrow Eternal Perfection Ease Flaws Humiliation Testing No Fear Richness Eternal Life Degradation No Pain Tainted

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear, but we do not know the strength of our own hearts, nor the power of God. He knows all. He knows every folding of the heart and also the extent of the sorrow that he inflicts. What we think will overwhelm us entirely only subdues and conquers our pride. Our renewed spirit rises from its subjugation with a celestial strength and consolation.”

Thinking Knows Heart Spirit Grief Greater Pride Bears Periods Sorrow Conquer Have Faith Affliction Consolation Celestial Power Of God Subjugation Folding

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.”

Knows Might Divine Pride Fine Plato Garments Rags Spun Tubs

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

“It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.”

Thinking Knows Whole Individual Nations Ignorance Pride Highest Begets Whole Family

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.”

Source: How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci

“The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end. A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated 1970's Peter Seller's Hollywood blockbuster titled ”Being There”

Knows Ends Character Problem President Strange Pride Weakness Hollywood Bounds Comic Confused Prophet Peter Being There Incompetence Sellers Clueless Blockbuster False Prophets

Author:Femi Fani-Kayode

“I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.”

Knows Lines Pride Prejudice Single Line

Author:Claire Foy

“A Marine knows that pride is the bedrock upon which he will lay the foundation of his life, and on that foundation he will build the structure by which the worth of his existence and the measure of his accomplishments will be judged.”

Knows Existence Pride Foundation Structure Lays Accomplishment Judged Marine Bedrock

Author:Zell Miller

“I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didnt have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.”

Knows Hard Done Saws Pride Guilt Brave Deeds Insight Combination Maturity Hard Times Medal Marine

Book:What It Is Like To Go To War

Source: What It Is Like To Go To War

“Winning awards is great. Everyone wants to put a feather in their cap but for me the ultimate validation comes when you're standing on top of a peak and the weather's moving in and you're trying to manage logistics with your client, whether its food, water, shelter, and really there's only one constant out there: I know the last person I'm going to get to take care of is myself, so my gear has got to work. I take a lot of pride in knowing Eddie Bauer makes the best gear out there.”

“As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.”

Knows Littles Persons Country Done Difficult Consciousness Color Poet Pride Proud Excellent Superiority

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.”

Knows Law Young Dies Can Do Behinds Crime Youth Pride Hundred Committed Punishment Repentance Denied Unjust Behind You

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.”

“A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help.”

Ifs Knows Men Helping Achieve Pride Praying Achievement Thanks Attributes Deprived Trembling Thanks To Him

Author:Dorotheus of Gaza

“I've got hope, I've got dreams and I have aspirations. I don't need to climb mountains; I don't need to build nations. What I do need is the courage to look deep inside, Cos I'm me and from me I know I can't hide. I don't wish to fly, I'm quite happy to glide. I am who I am and I'll be me with pride.”

Knows Needs Looks I Can Dream Motivational Nations Wish Pride Mountain Who I Am Aspiration Climbs Deep Inside I Am Who I Am

Author:Patrick Kelly

“Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In a world where so many companies are willing to cut corners, to do things the easy way in order to enhance the bottom line, it's gratifying to know that there's one company that obviously takes such pride in its finished product, one company that can always be counted on to design and produce a book that is, itself, as much a work of art as the illustrations on its pages.”

“Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.”

Knows Knowledge Ignorance Pride Suspicion Conjecture

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“I don't feel myself that I Know it all, but I have enough conceit to be successful. That observation was made by a businessman in his 30s who was making notable headway, although his path bristled with difficulties. Business places no premiums on shrinking violets. Employers prefer men who have self-assurance, forcefulness, go-aheadness, men who know their jobs and know that they know it.”

“Put all our pride away, always find a gentle word to say, you know we shouldn't be full of ourselves when we should be full of humility .”

Knows Should Humility Pride Gentle

Author:Dawud Wharnsby Ali

“One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation.”

Knows Wells Persons Ends Reason Honest Honesty Pride Illusion

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports this view.”

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke.”

Knows Enough Fighting Speak Wise Our Lives Pride And Love Surround Corrections Rebuke

Author:Paul Washer

“It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.”

“Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.”

People Knows Want Should Hands Poor Pride Proud Dignity Treats Fallen Inherent Poor People Bad Day Hands Up Handouts

Author:Desmond Tutu

“It's always weird when I meet people who don't know how to crack crabs open and eat them the right way. I take a lot of pride in my crab-eating ability.”

People Knows Way Ability Know How Pride Eating Cracks Right Way Crabs

Author:Eric Hutchinson

“The Lord does not show Himself to a proud soul. The proud soul, no matter how many books it reads, will never know God, since by its pride it does not give place for the grace of the Holy Spirit, while God is known only by the humble soul.”

Knows Inspirational Giving Doe Book Soul Matter Shows Christian Spirit Religious Known Lord Grace Pride Proud Holy Humble Holy Spirit Orthodox Knowing God

Author:Silouan the Athonite

“I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.”

Knows Want Feet Youth Pride Dignity India Asking

Author:Narendra Modi

“What it really is and what I now have experienced is that, people who take enormous pride in what they're doing - not in their person - that their work ethos is as high as nowhere else.That they love their jobs, they love to do their jobs properly as best they can. And coupled with the financial umph, you know, you get decent results.”

People Knows Persons Jobs Results Pride Financial Enormous Decent Ethos

Author:Christoph Waltz

“Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement of Luther and Anselm, and many other divines is, that we shall know one another; yea, the saints of all ages, whose faces we never saw; and, when we shall see the saints in glory without their infirmities of pride end passion, it will be a glorious sight.”

Knows Ends Age Christian Faces Passion Heaven Saws Divine Pride Blessing Glory Sight Saint Christian Life Judgement Glorious Luther Infirmity Chastisement

Author:Thomas Watson

“In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.”

Knows Pride Proud Glory Affair Righteousness Contempt Wrath Love Affair

Book:The Supremacy of God in Preaching

Source: The Supremacy of God in Preaching

“As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.”

People Knows World Want Can Do Know How Influence Pride Canada Places In The World

Author:Paul Martin

“He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.”

Knows Christian Religious Pride Waste Charity Folly Reasonableness

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4

“Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.”

Knows Matter Remember Evil Creation Pride Dignity Dare Thee Divinity Links Thyself Know Thyself Meanness Uniting

Author:Akhenaton