pride Quotes

“Pride, therefore, is pleasure springing from a man thinking too highly of himself.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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“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

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“First, there is the burden of pride. The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.”

― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

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“In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“It would be hundreds of years before any emergent Amazons would ever grasp the fact that a man is vulnerable only in his pride”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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“Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

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