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pride

Quotes including the word “pride”.

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Aeschylus

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Jane Austen

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

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Borges

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”

Khalil Gibran

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Luther

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Pablo Neruda

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.

Petrarca

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.