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Quotes About Pride

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.
~ Malcolm X
Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.
~ Mark Buchanan
A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.
~ Mark Twain
Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.
~ Mark Twain
Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?
~ Michael Ealy
What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.
~ Michael Finley
A man may be humble through vainglory.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
~ Muhammad Ali
I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!
~ Muhammad Ali
Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me
~ Muhammad Ali
A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise.
~ Norman Lock
No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.
~ Norman Mailer
Ah, though a Roman, I am not less a man.
~ Pierre Corneille
It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
~ Oscar Wilde
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
~ Robert Jordan
A man given to pride is usually proud of the wrong thing.
~ Henry Ford
Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames