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It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

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

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

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

The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

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. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.