Pride quotations

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◆ Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

- Emily Bront?99

◆ I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

- Rudyard Kipling99

◆ If I weren't too proud, I'd boast of my exaggerated opinion of myself.

- Bauvard99

◆ We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

- William Golding99

◆ But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world.

- J.K. Rowling99

◆ You need to take pride in what God has given you.

- Joel Osteen99

◆ I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor 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 Montaigne99

◆ Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.

- Jon Foreman99

◆ Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.

- Andrew Murray99

◆ Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

- Jane Austen99

◆ You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.

- George R.R. Martin99

◆ Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

- Blaise Pascal99

◆ Sometimes we women have to make a stand and say no. Don't just accept anything. Take pride in your body and yourself.

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◆ That one feeling you get when you understand something in Math.

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