#pride

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. ↗

— Billy Graham

#indulgence #lack #lifestyle #now #over

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#drive #every #heart #him #human

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#back #dead #fame #great #inheritance

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love. ↗

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#another #believe #dread #fear #i

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#changed #devils #humility #into #makes

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#down #loud #people #pride #rightly

If I weren’t too proud, I’d boast of my exaggerated opinion of myself. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #pride #funny

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#ambition #engage #fear #love #need

I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work. ↗

— Drew Brees

#back #because #faces #field #football

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#discover #nothing #pride #revelation #you