2,116 Quotes About Pride


  • Author Joseph Addison
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    The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

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  • Author Julie Andrews
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    Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside out greed, anger, pride and prejudice so that our minds are open and ready to accept it, that a miracle can occur.

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  • Author Kathy Acker
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    The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

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  • Author Lloyd Alexander
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    I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly much. Of intentions many good ones; but many more left undone. On this alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this too I saw . . . Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same.You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.

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  • Author Lloyd Alexander
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    If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.

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  • Author Martin Amis
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    These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

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