Pride proverbs

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◆ A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

- C.S. Lewis99

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

- Jorge Luis Borges99

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

- Khalil Gibran99

◆ I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

- Michel de Montaigne99

◆ I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

- Alexandre Dumas99

◆ As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

- Will Rogers99

◆ I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

- John Green99

◆ All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

- Sophocles99

◆ It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

- John Ruskin99

◆ Never rearrange your life in order to meet Mr. Darcy half way. If he couldn't see your worth at the moment you met then he won't two years later. May the halls of Pemberly be filled with his regrets and your life filled with thankfulness because of this revelation.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

- Dale Carnegie99

◆ Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

- C.G. Jung99

◆ The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

- S?ren Kierkegaard99