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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
Voltaire
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
Albert Camus
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
Benjamin Franklin
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
William Cowper
Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.
Frank Tyger
Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
William Shakespeare
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
W. S. Gilbert
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him. Ecclesiasticus 13:1
Bible
I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. Luke 16:3
Whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.
Pride goeth before destruction and a
God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble James 4:6
Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Yiddish Proverb
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world
Mark Twain
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Josh Billings
None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
Proverb
It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!
Thomas Chatterton
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.
Leo Tolstoy
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
Georges Bernanos
I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!
Muhammad Ali