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Pride envy avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

Pride avarice and envy are in every home.

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take based on our own decisions and choices as individuals link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

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.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity and their love to feed their pride.

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.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway three-quarters nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something I go all the way.

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

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

More enduringly than any other sport wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president it's about having a good president and I think that's the most important thing.

The God of this world is riches pleasure and pride.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

He didn't come out of my belly but my God I've made his bones because I've attended to every meal and how he sleeps and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.