Win The Life

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. - Khalil Gibran

 

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of a woman is the work of God. - William Blake

 

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us. - Charles Caleb Colton

 

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

 

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

 

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them. - William Hazlitt

 

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

 

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride.- William Blake

 

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.- Joseph Addison

 

Never pride yourself on knowledge. Remember, even a head of iceberg lettuce knows more than you do. It knows whether or not that light really does go out when the refrigerator door shuts.- Unknown

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

 

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages.- Samuel Johnson

 

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

 

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.- Paul Bryant

 

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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

 

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.- Joe Paterno

 

Shame is pride's cloak.- William Blake

 

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.- William Blake

 

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

 

This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God ...- William Saroyan

 

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death, one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.- Horace Mann

 

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.- Benjamin Franklin

 

There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich.- French Proverb

 

The great poems, Shakespeare's included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common man, the life-blood of democracy.- Walt Whitman

 

Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety.- Bertrand Russell

 

The nobler the blood the less the pride.- Unknown

 

Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died.- Horace

 

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.- Benjamin Franklin

 

Charity and pride have different aims, yet both feed the poor.- Proverb

 

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.- Bible

 

Let your pride pardon what your nature needs, the salutary censure of a friend.- Unknown

 

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride.- Seneca

 

Pride had rather out of the way than go behind.- Thomas Fuller

 

He will not enter hell who hath faith equal to a mustard seed in his heart; and he will not enter Paradise who hath a single grain of pride, equal to a mustard seed, in his heart.- Muhammad

 

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier, I brought him up to be my pride and joy, Who dares to put a musket to his shoulder, To kill some other mother's boy.- Unknown

 

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.- Jules Renard

 

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.- Robert Burton

 

Pride proceeds the fall.- The Bible

 

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

 

Pride sullies the noblest character.- Claudianus

 

Pride is an admission of weakness, it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.- Fulton John Sheen

 

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.- Kahlil Gibran

 

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.- George Chapman

 

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

 

What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.- William Wordsworth

 

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness, a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.- Josh Billings

 

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.- Joseph Addison