Alain de Botton Quotes, Pride Quotes, Expectations Quotes

William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

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

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Pride Quotes , People Quotes

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

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What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

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The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain, The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord, Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred, Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored; Great nations blossom above, A slave bows down to a slave.

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These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.

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Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Pride Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.

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I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Pride Quotes , Sarcasm Quotes

From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from people but from our vanity, which in town among people is unjust and active beyond measure.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Country Quotes , Pride Quotes

Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Pride Quotes

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Pride Quotes , Space Quotes

I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Summer Quotes , Pride Quotes

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

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It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

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I work hard on my defense. It's something I take pride in, but it's nothing that I want to brag about. It's part of my game.

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Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

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There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

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Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

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