pride Quotes

“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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“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardour of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary's force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“I am not proud, but I am happy, and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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“If you stop taking pride in your appearance, you will very soon die.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all”

― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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“And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts . . . she is proud.”

― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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“But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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“The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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