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"I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me."
"In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality."
"Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner."
"Gracious pride is a wonderful quality when it is used for good, it brings out the best in you and encourages the best in others."
"With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are."
"Don't keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your precious something hidden for discovery. When it is discovered, it shall win awe and admiration, and it shall be an inspiration!"
"There may not be an emotion more complex than the dual stations of pride. The positive connation of pride " the telluric current resulting from both natural causes and interactions of human beings " flows from the conception of applying a person's best effort to accomplish worthwhile tasks. The negative connotation of pride refers to an inflated sense of one's personal status or accomplishments."
Explore more quotes by Thomas Jefferson
"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."
"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
"How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"
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