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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne
    tags: confidence, inspirational, pride
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: happiness, pride
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
    ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
    tags: generosity, pride
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    C.S. Lewis
    “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: aspiration, pride, self-improvement
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    C.S. Lewis
    “As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: christian-values, humility, pride
    954 likes

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    Will Rogers
    “Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: appearances, credit, life, money, people, pride
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    John Green
    “I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.”
    ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    tags: affirmation, fathers, pride, sons
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    John Ruskin
    “It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”
    ― John Ruskin
    tags: love, pride
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
    tags: pride
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    Criss Jami
    “Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: competition, deserving, destruction, dictatorship, entitlement, man, nature, overpowering, power, pride, selfishness, stealing, thieves, tyranny
    642 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.”
    ― Soren A. Kierkegaard
    tags: bible, christianity, god, pride
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    C.G. Jung
    “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: conscience, pride, psychology, self, superego
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    Dale Carnegie
    “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
    tags: logic, people, prejudice, pride, relationships, vanity
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.

    It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems
    tags: betrayal, forgiveness, love, pride
    389 likes

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    Emily Brontë
    “Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
    ― Emily Brontë
    tags: pride
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    Giordano Bruno
    “I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.”
    ― Giordano Bruno
    tags: blasphemy, execution, fear, heresy, heretic, infidel, punishment, science, see, sentence, vision
    61 likes



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