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Monday, June 17th, 2024
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Pride'

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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
Gary Ackerman, American Politician (1942-  )
If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher (1903-1969)
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
Aeschylus, Greek Poet
The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
Sholom Aleichem, Russian Writer (1859-1916)
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet (1265-1321)
I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.
Paul Thomas Anderson, American Director (1970-  )
I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.
Francesca Annis, English Actress (1944-  )
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
Mary Antin, Russian Activist (1909-1949)
The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.
Minna Antrim, American Writer
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
Corazon Aquino, Statesman (1933-  )
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.
Johann Arndt, German Theologian
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine, Saint (354-430)
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen, British Writer (1775-1817)
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
Joe Baca, American Politician (1947-  )
A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
Walter Bagehot, English Author (1826-1877)
Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
Joanna Baillie, Scottish Poet
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Abu Bakr, Saudi Arabian Statesman
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
Hosea Ballou, American Clergyman (1771-  )
Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
Elizabeth Barton, English Celebrity
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman (1813-1887)
 
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