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We have only minimal control over the rewards for our work and effort - other people's validation, recognition, rewards. It's far better when doing the work itself is sufficient. When fulfilling our own internal standards is what fills us with pride and self-respect. The less attached we are to the outcomes, the better. Our ego wants recognition & compensation. We have expectations. Let the effort, not the results be enough. Maybe your parents/kids/partner/etc won't be impressed. We can't let THAT be what motivates us. We can change the definition of success to: 'peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.' With this definition we decide not to let externals determine if something is worth doing. It's on us.
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ego
egoism
motivation
peace-of-mind
pride
self-respect
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Ryan Holiday |
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"Their song reminds me of a child's neighborhood rallying cry--ee-ock-ee--with a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that is especially endearing. The towhee has the brass and grace to call, simply and clearly, "tweet". I know of no other bird that stoops to literal tweeting."
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birdcall
birdsong
forest
listen
natural-world
nature
page-251-2
pride
stereotype
unique
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Annie Dillard |
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There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.
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pain
pleasure
pride
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Jack Vance |
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Lunatics! Vain creatures! They don't believe in God, they don't believe in Christ! Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end up by eating one another, that's what I prophesy.
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pride
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Coming of queer age in the 1990s, to love queers was to love damage. To love damage was a path to loving yourself. ...Queers do not come out of the minefield of homophobia without scars. We do not live through out families' rejection of us, our stunted life options, the violence we've faced, the ways in which we've violated ourselves for survival, our harmful coping mechanisms, our lifesaving delusions, the altered brain chemistry we have sustained as a result of this, the low income and survival states we've endured as a result of society's loathing, unharmed. Whatever of theses wounds I didn't experience firsthand, my lovers did, and so I say that, for a time, it was not possible to have queer love that was not ins some way damaged or defined by damage sustained, even as it desperately fought through that damage to access, hopefully, increasingly frequent moments of sustaining, lifesaving love, true love, and loyalty, and electric sex.
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love
pride
queer
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Michelle Tea |
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"He's not wanting to fight," she assured the captain. "He is driven by curiosity?" Deudermont asked. "By loyalty," Catti-brie answered. "And nothing more. Drizzt is bound by friendship to ye and to the crew, and if a simple contest against the man will make for an easier sail, then he's up to the fight. But there is no curiosity in Drizzt. No stupid pride. He's not for caring who's the better at swordplay." Deudermont nodded and his expression brightened. The young woman's words confirmed his belief in his friend."
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pride
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R.A. Salvatore |
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Why, there's the air, the sky, the morning, the evening, moonlight, my friends, women, the beautiful architecture of Paris to study, three big books to write and all sorts of other things. Anaxagoras used to say that he was in the world in order to admire the sun. And then I have the good fortune to be able to spend my days from morning to night in the company of a man of genius - myself - and it's very pleasant.
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inspirational
positive
pride
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Victor Hugo |
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...my pride in Joachim Mahlke was as sweet as chocolate creams.
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pride
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Günter Grass |
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Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.
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love
pride
thinking
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John Piper |
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If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an udersized opinion of himself.
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pride
self-reliance
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James Fenimore Cooper |
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Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.
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note
pride
wallet
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Mohsin Hamid |
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If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.
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pride
vocation
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Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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"The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable."
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insularity
prejudice
pride
racism
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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bbddbed
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Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.
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freedom
illusive
pride
remember
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Francine Rivers |
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If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?
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discipline
holiness
pride
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.
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authenticity
humility
ministry
openness
pride
religiousness
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E.M. Forster |
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It was one of the links between the ground-down poor and the wasteful rich. The girl felt that even if she had less than anybody in Williamsburg, somehow she had more. She was richer because she had something to waste.
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pride
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Betty Smith |
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Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.
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leadership
pride
statecraft
strategy
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.
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fighter
pride
vocation
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Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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Creativity is the result of renunciation on the journey of spiritual enlightenment, not of a thirst for glory or personal pride.
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creativity
enlightenment
glory
life
pride
renunciation
spirituality
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Ray Mancini |
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- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner? - Yes -And are you proud of it? -I am not ashamed of it, but I am not proud of it, for in fact I had nothing to do with it.
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patriotism
pride
south-africa
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Alan Paton |
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It is a defeat of the spirit to learn one's arrogance causes such loss and pain. Pride invites you to soar to heights and the footing, tentative. farther, then, is the fall.
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pride
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R.A. Salvatore |
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That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.
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pride
war
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John Fowles |
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He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
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materialism
pride
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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"He did not smile. 'We are the keepers of the world's greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?' "My children are my greatest treasures,' she said. 'Stone no matter how old, means nothing to me when compared to their welfare."
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greed-of-man
motherhood
pride
selfishness
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Karen Essex |
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"Abruptly, the sea of people parted . . . and then there they were. Bella, with Nalla in her arms, Z standing beside his girls. Beth broke down all over again as the female came forward. God, it was impossible not to remember how Nalla had started this, putting into motion the need that had become undeniable. Bella was tearing up, too, as she stopped. "We just want to say yay!" At that moment, Nalla reached out to Beth, a gummy smile on her face, pure joy radiating out. No turning that down, nope, not at all. Beth took the little girl out of her mother's arms and positioned her on her chest, capturing one of the pinwheeling hands and giving kisses, kisses, kisses. "You ready to be a big . . ." Beth glanced at Z and then her husband. ". . . a big sister?" Yes, Beth thought. Because that's what the Brotherhood and their families were. Close as siblings, tighter than blood because they were chosen. "Yes, she is," Bella said as she wiped under her eyes and looked back at Z. "She is so ready." "My brother." Z shoved out his palm, his scarred face in a half smile, his yellow eyes warm. "Congratulations." Instead of shaking anything, Wrath shoved that ultrasound picture into his Brother's face. "Do you see him? See my son? He's big, right, Beth?" She kissed Nalla's supersoft hair. "Yes." "Big and healthy, right?" Beth laughed some more. "Big and healthy. Absolutely perfect." "Perfect!" Wrath bellowed. "And this is a doctor saying it--I mean, she went to medical school." Even Z started laughing at that point. Beth gave Nalla back to her parents. "And Dr. Sam told me she's delivered over fifteen thousand babies over the course of her career--" "See!" Wrath yelled. "She knows these things. My son is perfect! Where's the champagne? Fritz! Get the fucking champagne!"
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bella
beth
family
nalla
pride
wrath
zsadist
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J.R. Ward |
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Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard.
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pride
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Geraldine Brooks |
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and ... Love life! Too many people would rather be dead than be embarrassed or soiled. That is very foolish. Life is a brilliant and wonderful adventure. Never throw it away, and never hide from it.
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life-quotes
pride
prideful
survival
survive
uplifting-quotes
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Sean McMullen |
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If she had cried and sobbed and seemed frightened, Miss Minchin might almost have had more patience with her. She was a woman who liked to domineer and feel her power, and as she looked at Sara's pale little steadfast face and heard her proud little voice, she felt quite as if her mind was being set at naught.
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dignity
pride
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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I sometimes think there's two sides to the commandment; and that we may say, 'Let others do unto you, as you would do unto them,' for pride often prevents our giving others a great deal of pleasure, in not letting them be kind, when their hearts are longing to help; and when we ourselves should wish to do just the same, if we were in their place.
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golden-rule
kindness
pride
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Pride takes a minor accomplishment and makes it feel like a major one. From the start, it drives a wedge between the possessor and reality, subtly and not so subtly changing her perceptions of what something is and what it isn't. It is these steering opinions, only loosely secured by fact or accomplishment, that send us careering toward delusion or worse.
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pride
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Ryan Holiday |
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Pride. You have it where you can have it.
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pride
self-esteem
sexism
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Marilyn French |
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"The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to the most ernest disciple but Christ says to us then what He said to His disciples long ago, when many of them had given u pin disgust, "Do you also want to leave me?" If we answer as PEter did, "Lord to whom else shall we go? Your words are words of eternal life," our rebel thoughts are captured once more. The way of holiness is again visible."
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holiness
pride
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Elisabeth Elliot |
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Man had to hang on to his pride.
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pride
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Robert Ferrigno |
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O, uber die weilden, unbiegsamen Manner, die nur immer ihr stieres Auge auf das Gespenst der Ehre heften!
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honor
pride
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |