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Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too. (Quote by - Lorrie Fair)

I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy. (Quote by - Zhu Rongji)

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. (Quote by - George Chapman)

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. (Quote by - George Santayana)

What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. (Quote by - Abu Bakr)

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. (Quote by - Conrad Veidt)

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless. (Quote by - J. G. Holland)

It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots. (Quote by - Genevieve Gorder)

So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm. (Quote by - Kevin Garnett)

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up. (Quote by - Dan O'Brien)

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor, a fast flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. (Quote by - William Knox)

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate. (Quote by - Margaret Truman)

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. (Quote by - Isaac Bickerstaff)

Pride the first peer and president of hell. (Quote by - Daniel Defoe)

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