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Pride Quotes
"Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted."
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"Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself."
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"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."
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"Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride."
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"Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it."
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"I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest."
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"Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon."
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"Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan)."
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"Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned."
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"I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special."
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"Whenever an Indian goes to any part of the world and makes a difference there, we feel proud."
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"With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are."
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"I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one."
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"Egoism [Ahamkar: Aham=I; kar=did] means 'I did'. Where one is not the doer and he says, 'I did'; that is egoism. To do egoism and to walk around with an inflated chest is pride (maan) and then to go on telling others 'I did it myself', is known as pride with my-ness (abhiman)."
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"One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive."
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"Worrying is the greatest pride, which is why nature punishes one heavily. Nature punishes more the one who worries, than it does the one who curses God. The doer is some other entity and you are worrying? Are you mightier than even nature?"
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"It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so."
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"The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all."
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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."
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"Until pride (vanity) leaves, there is nothing but pain, pain and more pain!"
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"The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good."
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"Pride is the luxury of the strong"."
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"Pride is pride not because it hates being wrong, but because it loves being wrong: To hate being wrong is to change your opinion when you are proven wrong; whereas pride, even when proven wrong, decides to go on being wrong."
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"Whoever ego motivates becomes an idol worshipper."
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"But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what's the sense of ever having it, if man is poorly put together as a physiological type and if the enormous majority of the human race is brutal, stupid, and profoundly unhappy?"
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"Gracious pride is a powerful motivator and an exceptional quality. It drives a person to strive for excellence, keep promises, not give up, be more resilient, maintain optimism, and hold their head high while enduring challenge and change."
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"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."
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"Evaluate yourself and your calling worthily enough and be proud of it."
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"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."
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"In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality."
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"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!"
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"We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth."
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"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."
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"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."
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