Quotes having the keyword Pride
We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.
by John Thorn (Historian, American , born in 1947) keywords: accomplishments, bags, bid, call, civic, even, know, men, our, own, packed, personal, pride, professionals, services, take, their, them, these, up, whose , yet We can to-day open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.
by Robert Toombs (Politician, American , born in 1810) keywords: act, administrations, challenge, every, history, injustice, north, open, out, own, partiality, point, pride, section, single, stained, their, to-day, wide , world He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
by Margaret Truman (Novelist, American , born in 1924) keywords: belonging, club, exclusive, most, pride, senate, states, took, united , world It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home-it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
by Margaret Truman (Novelist, American , born in 1924) keywords: appreciate, back, career, fully, greatness, grow, him, his, leave, love, measure, only, own, pride, reinforces, step, then, up , your Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
by Thorstein Veblen (Economist, American , born in 1857) keywords: beautiful, brother, dignity, doing, good, joy, labor, making, pride, respect, sense, sister, something, treated, useful, wants , work 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.
by Conrad Veidt (Actor, German , born in 1893) keywords: amount, birth, brother, caused, certain, elder, empire, father, fraternal, german, hitherto, home, jealousy, mother, much, neither, nor, only, pleased, pride, shook, son, upheaval , usual When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
by Ralph Thomas Walker (Architect, American , born in 1889) keywords: am, character, connections, knowledge, matter, own, pride, respect, self, severe, sure, within , your Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
by David Foster Wallace (Writer, American , born in 1962) keywords: black, blacks, conscious, hideous, oppression, parody, poverty, pride, rap, response, sixties , some There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
by George Washington (President, American , born in 1732) keywords: calculate, cure, discard, error, expect, experience, favors, greater, illusion, just, must, nation, ought, pride, real, than, upon , which A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
by Isoroku Yamamoto (Soldier, Japanese , born in 1884) keywords: enemy, having, himself, man, matter, military, more, pride, scarcely, shame, simply, sleeping , smitten Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
by William Butler Yeats (Poet, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: action, asleep, books, conversation, dead, design, get, living, may, nothing, paper, pride, repair, spend, their, thought, unless, waste, weary , wisdom
