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"Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what’s right and wrong these days."

Janet Morris

Truth, Courage, Commitment, Loyalty, Pride, Honour, Duty, Heroism
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

C. S. Lewis

Pride
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

William Cowper

Pride
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Pride
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Pride
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

Alexander Pope

Pride
7

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

Austin O'Malley

Pride
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God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble -- James 4:6

Pride
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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him. -- Ecclesiasticus 13:1

Pride
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I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.

William James

Pride
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I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!

Muhammad Ali

Pride
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I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. -- Luke 16:3

Pride
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I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Julius Caesar

Pride
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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom --one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

John Keats

Pride
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I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau

Pride
16

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Benjamin Franklin

Pride
17

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

G. K. Chesterton

Pride
18

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

John Ruskin

Pride
19

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Georges Bernanos

Pride
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

William Shakespeare

Pride
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

T. S. Eliot

Pride
22

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

W. S. Gilbert

Pride
23

Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.

Jesse Jackson

Pride
24

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

Pride
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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pride
26

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Pride
27

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride
28

Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.

Pride
29

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Thomas Jefferson

Pride
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Pride
31

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

Pride
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Baruch Spinoza

Pride
33

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Samuel Johnson

Pride
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Alexander Pope

Pride
35

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Pride
36

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

Pride
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Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Thomas Fuller M.D.

Pride
38

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Benjamin Franklin

Pride
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Emily Brontë

Pride
40

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

Fred Allen

Pride
41

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

Pride
42

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

Pride
43

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

Pride
44

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

Fred Allen

Pride
45

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

Pride
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The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

George Santayana

Pride
47

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Iris Murdoch

Pride
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Oscar Levant

Pride
49

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Pride
50

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

George Eliot

Pride
51

There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride
52

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Elbert Hubbard

Pride
53

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Carl Jung

Pride
54

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Andrew Young

Pride
55

We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame.

Pride
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

Oscar Levant

Pride
57

Whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

Pride
58

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.

Pride

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"Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what’s right and wrong these days."

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble -- James 4:6

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him. -- Ecclesiasticus 13:1

I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!

I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. -- Luke 16:3

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom --one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

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

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion

Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

The nobler the blood the less the pride.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

There is this paradox in pride -- it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

Whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.