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

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real

Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies

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

Unknown

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

Samuel Butler

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Hosea Ballou

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Benjamin Franklin

Pride is the mask we make of our faults

Hebrew Proverb

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Alain Rene Lesage

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Henry Ward Beecher

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth

Gertrude Franklin Atherton

My pride fell with my fortunes.

William Shakespeare

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men

Dante Alighieri

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father

Douglas MacArthur

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Alexander Pope

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Voltaire

Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity desires the esteem of others.

Unknown

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Jules Renard

Humility is pride in Godî

Austin O\'Malley

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Lord Chesterfield

One may be humble out of pride.

Michel de Montaigne

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Josh Billings

He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise

William Shakespeare

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